London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) as the parish of Allhallows the less in the Ward of Dowgate in London aforesaid
on the third day of April 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 Brough of Southwark on view of
the body of Thomas Hughes< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Pearson< no role > Peter Catharine,
William Pugh< no role > , Henry Dady< no role > , Thomas Potter< no role > , George Suck< no role > , William Kent< no role > , George Quint< no role > , Robert
Dodd,< no role > George Raye< no role > , Thomas Savell< no role > , Clandins Chervet< no role > , and James Fenn< 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 Thomas Hughes< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Hughes< no role >
on the first day of April in the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell into the River of Thomas 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 Hughes< no role > did then and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Hughes< 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 William Pearson< 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.

Wm. Peason< no role >