London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is
to say) at the parish of Saint John the Baptist in the Ward of Vintry in London aforesaid
on the twenty first day of January in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain & before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the
body of Richard Clark< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Richard Willshire< no role > James Pickering< no role >
John Riggs< no role > John Harrington< no role > Ambrose Harper< no role > William Hiller Edward Rainbow< no role > Andrew
Whale William Cole< no role > William Allwright< no role > Richard Taylor< no role > Thomas Ridley< no role > Thomas Cock< no role >
Samuel Bundy< no role > and Francis Robins< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said
Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Richard Clark< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said Richard Clark< no role > on the twentieth day of January in the
year aforesaid being on the landing place of a certain two pair of stairs room in the dwelling
house of one Roger Eaton there situate It so happened that the said Richard Clark< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell from the aforesaid Landing place down to and against
the landing place of the one pair of stairs room of and belonging to the said dwelling
house by means whereof the said Richard Clark< no role > did then and there receive one mortal wound
in and upon the back part of his neck of him the said Richard Clark< no role > of which said
mortal wound he the said Richard Clark< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Clark< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Willshire< no role >
the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their
presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place
first abovewritten

R Willshire [mark] Foreman