London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower in London aforesaid on the
eleventh day of October in the thirty eight 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 James Smart< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Charles Burnett< no role > , Daniel
Jewson< no role > , Anthony Woodland< no role > , Joshua Jermy< no role > , James Blanch< no role > , Joseph Fennell< no role > , John Crane< no role > , Edward
Roberts, William Harris< no role > , John Jones< no role > , James Lamb< no role > , Henry Hadden< no role > , William Wardale< no role > ,
Stephen Newman< no role > , William Green< no role > , and Samuel Wright< 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 James Smart< no role > came to
his death say upon their oath that the said James Smart< no role > on the tenth day of
October in the year aforesaid being on a certain Quay there situate called Ralph Quay
It so happened that the said James Smart< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from and off the said Quay 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 James Smart< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said James Smart< 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 Charles Burnett< 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

Charles Burnett< no role > [mark]