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 seventeenth
day of July 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 Thomas Paine< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Henry Banneter< no role > , John Dibbins< no role > ,
Jonathan Gaines< no role > , Joseph Welling< no role > , John Agnis< no role > , Jonathan Stevens< no role > , John Carr< no role > ,
Samuel Stevens< no role > , William Goddard< no role > , William King< no role > , John Holmes< no role > , Henry Whitmarsh< no role > ,
John Bolton< no role > , and Daniel Harris< 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
Thomas Paine< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas
Paine on the fourteenth day of July in the year aforesaid accidentally casually
and by misfortune fell into the River of Thames there situate 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 Thomas Paine< no role > did then and there
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Thomas Paine< 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 Henry Banneter< 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.

Henry Banneter< no role > [mark] Foreman