London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Mary at Hill
in the Ward of Billinsgate
in London aforesaid on the
twenty eighth day of January in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender
of the faith and so forth
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 a Man whose
name to the Jurors is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas
Lamburn
Edward Webster< no role >
Robert Burch< no role >
James Robinson< no role >
George Hall< no role >
Richard Duffin David
Foot
Thomas Phipps< no role >
John Bates< no role >
Richard Kelday< no role >
William Shepherd< no role >
and
Richard Payne< 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 Man whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said man whose
name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune fell
into the river of Thames
and in and with the waters of the said river was then and there suffocated
and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is unknown did then and there die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Thomas Lambun< 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.
Thos. Lambun< no role >
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Foreman