Surrey

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty second
day of May in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain Etc 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 James
Cook now here lying dead by the oath of Samuel Collings< no role > Thomas Crooks< no role > John Lee< no role >
Isaac Smith< no role > Decimas Hayward< no role > William Cooper< no role > Jeremiah Holliday< no role > Christopher Crooks< no role >
George Penleaze< no role > William Dyer< no role > and John Savey< no role > William Mackey< no role > William Williams< no role >
James Archer< no role > and William Dalby 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 James Cook< no role > came to his
death say upon their oath that the said James Cook< no role > on the twentieth day of May
in the year aforesaid being employed in emptying a Privy in the Yard belonging
to the dwelling house of known by the sign of the white house situate
in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr within the Borough and County aforesaid It so
happened that the said James Cook< no role > was then and there suffocated by and with certain
foul air in the said Privy of which said suffocation the said James Cook< no role > as well at
the said Parish of Saint George the Martyr as also at the said Parish of Saint Thomas< no role >
within the Borough and County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live and on the
same day and year last aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Borough and County
aforesaid diedAnd so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
James Cook< 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 Samuel Collins< 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 above written.

Samuel Collins< no role > [mark] foreman