London
Thomas. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at
the parish of Saint Bennet Gracechurch
street in the Ward of Bridge in London aforesaid
on the thirteenth 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
Robert Turner< no role >
now here lying dead by the
oath of
George Litster< no role >
John How< no role >
Thomas Woollard< no role >
James Bedard
Benjamin Banks< no role >
Joseph
Martin George Rosseter
William Walton< no role >
John Lewer< no role >
George Gines Stibls
John Hill< no role >
and John
Wells Deane< 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
Robert Turner< no role >
came to his death say upon this oath that the said Robert
Turner on the fifth day of September in the year aforesaid being in a certain vessell on the
River of Thames
It so happened that the said
Robert Turner< no role >
accidentally casually and by
misfortune fell from and out of the said vessell 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
Robert Turner< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Robert Turner< no role >
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
George Litster< 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
there hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten.
Geo Litster< no role >
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