Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eighteenth day of July
in the thirty sixth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain
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 Samuel Smith< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of Edward Couch< no role > Richard Friend< no role > Dennis Lane< no role > William Skinner< no role > and
William Jagg< no role > Thomas Crooks< no role > James Archer< no role > William Mackay< no role > Richard Brown< no role > William
Howard Decimus Hayward< no role > Philip Windsor< no role > and John Davis< no role > Clark John Lee< no role > William
Freeman James Tite< no role > Christopher Brooks< no role > Filer Hays< no role > and John Morgan< no role > good and
lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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
Samuel Smith< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Samuel Smith< no role > on the
thirteenth day of July in the year aforesaid being on a certain Stage erected n a certain
wharf situate in he parish of Saint Sairour within the Borough and County aforesaid called
Peacocks wharf it so happened that the said Samuel Smith< no role > accidentally casually and by
misfortune fell from and off the said Stage down to and against and upon a certain
wash board in and belonging to a certain barge then lying on the River of Thames along
side of the said wharf by means whereof the said Samuel Smith< no role > did then and there
receive one mortal in and upon the head of him the said Samuel of which said mortal wound he the said Samuel did then and there
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Samuel
Smith in manner and by the means aforesaid came to his death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner at the said Edward Couch< 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.

[mark] Ed Couch< no role >
Foreman