London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Michael
Queenhithe
in the Ward of Queenhithe
in London aforesaid
on the twenty seventh day of June
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 Thomas Emperor now here lying dead by the oath of
John Phillips< no role >
John Davis< no role >
John Elsee< no role >
Thomas Hathway< no role >
Henry Palmer< no role >
Edward Winspear< no role >
Henry Broom< no role >
Richard Tapper< no role >
Joseph Parker< no role >
Jonathan Downs< no role >
Richard Reily
William Brown< no role >
and
Thomas Reynolds< 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 Emperor came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Emperor on the
twenty second day of June in the year aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into
the River of Thames
there situate 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 Emperor did then and
there die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
John Phillips< 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 above written.
John Phillips [mark] Foreman< no role >