Middlesex ,
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Sign of the Kings Arms in the Parish of
Saint Luke Chelsea in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth Day of May in the 25 Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third , by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland, KING Defender of
the Faith, Etc, before Edward Umfreville< no role > Esquire one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of John Hays< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Thomas Surr Thomas
Tooth John Gardner< no role > William Jackson< no role > , John Hall< no role > , Samuel Willan< no role > Joseph Walker< no role > , John Locker James
Feltham , Thomas Turner< no role > Edward Downes< no role > Thomas Ratcliffe< no role > and Thomas Boyland< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by law required and who being, then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said John Hays< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say,That the said John Hays< no role >
on the twenty Seventh day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune fell into a Certain River Called the River Thames there Situate and in
the Waters of the sd River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said John Hayes< no role > then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Hayes< no role > 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, Thomas Surr 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 and Year first abovementioned

E Umfreville [mark] Coronr.
Thos: Surr [mark] Foreman