Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the
parish of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on
the thirtieth day of September 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 Mottisher< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of Richard Leveridge< no role > , Matthew Hart< no role > , Samuel Beeby, James
Walter Lamb< no role > , Thomas Rogers< no role > , Charles Warner< no role > , Thomas Garland< no role > , William Barklamb< no role > ,
George Phillipson< no role > , William Palmer< no role > , Jonathan Stevens< no role > , and James Newton< 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 Mottisher< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Mottisher< no role > on the
twenty ninth day of September 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 Mottisher accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from and out of the said vessel into 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 Mottisher< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do Say that the said John Mottisher< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise.
In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Leveridge< 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.

Richd Leveridge< no role > [mark]