London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the eighth day of August 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 Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark in view of the body of a man whose Christian name< no role > is William
but whose Surname is unknownHow here lying dead by the oath of
John Brown< no role > , George Thompson< no role > , Henry Tyler< no role > , Henry Miller< no role > , James Aldie, Richard Sims< no role > ,
Henry Madgin< no role > , Thomas Gower< no role > , William Russell< no role > , George Thomas< no role > , Thomas Snape< no role > ,
Gerrard Willett< no role > , John Dolphin< no role > , and Samuel Leonard, 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 man
named William came to his death say upon their oath that the said Man named
William on the said eighth day of August in the year aforesaid at the precinct of Hackins
in the Ward aforesaid being going along a plank from a barge lying on the river of
Thames there Situate to a pile near the shore there Situate and having a stone
of a very great weight on his shoulders It so happened that the said plank with his
face downwards with the said Stone upon him by means whereof the said man
named William was then and there violently Jammed and crushed between the
aforesaid plank and the said Stone and thereby the said man named William did then and
there receive divers mortal bruises in and upon his body of which said Mortal bruises
he the said man named William on the said eighth day of August in the year aforesaid
as well at the said precinct of Blackfriars as also at the aforesaid parish of Saint
Bartholomew the less in the ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish and
languishing did live and on the said eighth day of august in the year aforesaid
the said man named William at the parish and Ward last aforesaid in London
aforesaid of the said Mortal bruises did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and
not otherwise And that the said Stone is of the value of one Shilling and was moving
to the death of the said Man named William and is the property of and in the
possession of MrsWood of Saint Andrews hill in the parish of Saint Ann Blackfriars
in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaidIn Witness where of as well the
said Coroner as the said John Brown< 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 firstabove written.

John Brown< no role > Foreman