London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
as the parish of Allhallows
Barkin in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the twenty fourth
day of May 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 Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the City of London
and Borough of Southwark
on view of the body of
Mary Grice< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of
John Gray< no role >
James
Hasted
Charles Barnett< no role >
Mark Cook
James Blanch< no role >
John Jones< no role >
John Drake< no role >
James Jermy< no role >
John Newell< no role >
Samuel Wright< no role >
William Robins< no role >
.
James Robertson< no role >
and
John Crane< 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
Mary Grice< no role >
came to her death say upon their oath that the said
Mary Grice< no role >
on the
twenty third day of May in the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell
into the River of Thomas 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
Mary Grice< no role >
did then and
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary
Grice in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came
to her death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
John Gray< 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 above written.
John Gray< no role >
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