Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty
fifth day of May 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 John Gilham< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Peter Norton Joseph York< no role > Hatton
William Fage< no role > John Pritchard< no role > Joseph James< no role > George Weddle George Atkinson< no role > George Watson Wood< no role >
Edward Hooper< no role > Thomas Deacon< no role > Michael Bayley< no role > David Redde< no role > and Joseph Pain< 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 John Gilham< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the
said John Gilham< no role > on the twenty third day of May in the year aforesaid being in and on board
of a certain vessel lying on the River of Thames there situate It so happened that the said
John Gilham< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said vessel in to
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 Gilham< no role > did then
and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
John Gilham< 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
Peter Norton< 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

Peter Norton [mark] Foreman