Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of
Saint Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the fourth day of
April in the thirty ninth 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 George
Radford now here lying dead by the oath of William Hutchinson< no role > Delany Clark< no role >
Daniel Bhendell Thomas Crooks< no role > Samuel Collins< no role > Docimus Hayward< no role > William Jagg< no role >
Christopher Crooks< no role > John Buckle< no role > Thomas Parry< no role > Thomas Denslow< no role > William Howard< no role > Samuel
Hales James Davis< no role > John Sutton< no role > and William Dyer< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough
of Southwark aforesaid in the County 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
George Radford< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that a certain woman called by
the name of Kitty on the twenty fourth day of March in the year aforesaid being greatly
intoxicated with liquor and being on certain stairs in the dwelling house of
situate in the parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County of Surrey aforesaid and the said
George Radford< no role > an infant being also on the said stairs It so happened that the said woman
named Kitty did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune stumble and fall
back to and against the said George Radford< no role > by means whereof the said George Radford< no role >
was then and there forced and fell from the said stairs to and against the floor there
and the said George Radford< no role > did then and there receive one mortal wound and contusion
in and upon the head of him the said George Radford< no role > of which said mortal wound and contusion
the said George Radford< no role > from the said twenty fourth day of March in the year aforesaid until
the first day of April in the same year as well at the said parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe
aforesaid in the County aforesaid as also at the said parish of Saint Thomas within the
Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the county aforesaid did languishes and languishing did
live and on the same day and year last aforesaid at the parish last aforesaid within the
Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County aforesaid the said George Radford< no role > of the said mortal
wound and contusion did dieand so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said George Radford< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said William Hutchinson< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors
on behalf of himself and the rest of the fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition
set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Willm [mark] Hutchinson< no role >
Foreman