Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish
of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty
eighth day of February in the thirty seventh 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 John Smith< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Hogg< no role > Sydall Hopkins< no role >
Thomas Friend< no role > Thomas Davis< no role > Henry Chambers< no role > Richard Norris< no role > William Sewell< no role >
Daniel Harris< no role > William Ross< no role > Richard Rowland< no role > John Swift< no role > and James Burgess< 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 John Smith< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that
the said John Smith< no role > on the twenty fourth day of February in the year aforesaid
being stepping out of a certain boat lying on the River of Thames there situate into
a certain barge also lying on the said River It so happened that the said John Smith< no role >
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said boat 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 he the said
John Smith< no role > did then and there die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Hogg< 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 Hogg< no role > [mark] Foreman