London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Allhallows the less in the ward of Dowgate in London aforesaid
on the twelfth day of September 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 Aaron Sweets< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of James Mote< no role > Robert Pratt< no role > Charles Stewart< no role > Charles Wright< no role > Henry
Normand John Raine< no role > Evan Jones< no role > Robert Dodd< no role > John Combs< no role > William Thompson< no role > Thomas
Davis and John Wainwright< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid
who being now her duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the
King when how and in what manner the said Aaron Sweets< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said Aaron Sweets< no role > on the tenth day of September in
the year aforesaid being bathing in the River of Thames It so happened that the said Aaron Sweets accidentally casually and by
misfortune sunk beneath the waters of the said River and in and with the waters of
the said River was then and suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and
drowning the said Aaron Sweets< no role > die then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Aaron Sweets< no role > accidentally casually
and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said James Mote 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.

James Mote< no role > [mark] Foreman