London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of Billingsgate in London
aforesaid on the twelfth day of January in the thirty eighth 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 a man whose names to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown now here lying
dead by the oath of William Coates< no role > James Musgrove< no role > , William Taylor< no role > , James William< no role > Hobbs,
Michael Bedwell< no role > , John Hall< no role > , John Bates< no role > , James Wenman< no role > , Richard Duffin< no role > , James Robinson< no role > ,
John Cassidey< no role > , Charles Lockington< 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 man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is
unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said man whose name to
the Jurors aforesaid is unknown on the tenth day of January in the year aforesaid being
stepping from and out of a certain Vessel lying on the River of Thames there situate
called the Princess Royal into a certain othershipVessel also lying on the said River called the
King George. It so happened that the said man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is
unknown accidentally casually and by misfortune fell 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 man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is
unknown did then and there die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown
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 William Coates< 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.

William Coates< no role > [mark]