Southwark

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
Saint John within the Borough Southwark in the County of Surrey in the thirty first day of
August in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 a man named
Lewis but whose Christian name< no role > to unknown now here lying dead by the oath of
William Ball< no role > Simon Lake< no role > William Haycook< no role > John Huddibul< no role > John Walton< no role > William
Burton Matthew< no role > Winckle Richard< no role > Lane Richard< no role > Lewis Charles< no role > Steward Timothy< no role >
Newland and< no role > John Buchanan< 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 Man named Lewis came to his death Say upon their oath
that the said Man named Lewis but whose Christian name< no role > is unknown
on the thirtieth day of August in the year aforesaid being employed together
with other persons in working a certain Crane at Hardleys wharf there
Situate It so happened that one of the said persons having gone out of
the said Crane the said Man named Lewis and the said other persons
remaining in the said Crane were overpowered by the said Crane and the
Same went round with great velocity and by means thereof the said
man named Lewis was accidentally casually and by misfortune there was
about against the Sides of the said Crane and did thereby then and there
receive divers mortal bruises in and upon divers parts of the body of
which said Mortal bruises the said man named Lewis did then and there
instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
Say that the said Man named Lewis 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
William Ball< 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

Wm Ball< no role >