London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Lord the King at London that is to say
at the Precinct of Saint Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the second day of September in the thirty sixthseventhyear 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 male child whose name to the following
Jurors is unknown now here lying dead by the oath of John Biggs< no role > James Taylor< no role >
Samuel Rodbard< no role > Walter Newbon< no role > Samuel Nash< no role > James Hollis< no role > James Russell< no role >
John Harris< no role > Joseph Jeff< no role > Jeffries John Chapman< no role > James Jenkinson< no role > John Fowler< no role >
James Harrison< no role > Robert Barnard< no role > Simon King< no role > and Charles Moody< 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 male child whose name to the
Jurors aforesaid is unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said
child whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown on the twenty third day
of August in the year aforesaid being in a certain barge then lying in the River
of Thames It so happened that the said Child whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is unknown accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said
barge into the said River 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 child whose name is unknown to the said Jurors did then
and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said male child whose name is unknown to the said Jurors in manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated
and drowned In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Biggs< 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.

John Biggs< no role > [mark]