London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Mary Woolnoth in the Ward of Langbourn in London
aforesaid on the eighteenth day of August 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 Fair now here lying dead by the oath of
James Jones< no role > , Jacob Hack< no role > , Benjamin George< no role > , Joseph Long< no role > , George Cooper< no role > , James Dickie< no role > ,
Thomas Hondall< no role > , Thomas Howes< no role > , John Abraham< no role > , Peter Davie< no role > , John Waylett< no role > , John
Burnby,< no role > Joseph Fern< no role > , Richard Martin< no role > , George Wilkinson< no role > and John Furnival< 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
John Fair< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Fair< no role > on the
sixteenth day of August in the year aforesaid being in a certain boat then lying on the
River of Thames there situate It so happened that the said John Fair 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 the said John Fair< no role > did then and threw die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon then oath aforesaid do say that the said John fair 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 James Jones< no role >
the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their
presence have to this Inquisitions set their hands and seals the day year and place first
above written

James Jones< no role > [mark] Foreman