London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower in London
aforesaid on the twenty fifth day of April 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 Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the body of George Smith< no role > now here lying dead by the
oath of John Gray< no role > Richard Pooler< no role > Thomas Riddall< no role > Daniel Fidgeon< no role > Edward Roberts< no role >
Thomas Walker< no role > Richard Burchmore< no role > Christopher Lattimer< no role > James Lamb< no role > Daniel
Jereson Joseph Fennel< no role > William How< no role > and Richard Leveridge< 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 George Smith< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said George Smith< no role >
on the twenty second day of April in the year aforesaid being in and on board
of a certain vessel on the River of Thames there situate It so happened that the said George
Smith accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said vessel 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 George
Smith did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said George Smith< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Gray< 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.

Jno. Gray< no role > [mark]