Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint
John the Evangelist in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter of Westminster the Nineteenth day of February in the thirty third Year of the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred
and sixty Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and
Liberty of Westminster aforesaid Upon a Veiw of the Body of John Ryall< no role > then and there Lying
Dead by the Oaths of Thomas Rigg< no role > William Stratford< no role > , Silas Paine< no role > , William Pawsey< no role > , Francis Norris< no role >
Thomas Owen< no role > , Thomas Castle< no role > Matthias Meacham< no role > John Marriott< no role > , George Tatton< no role > , Matthew Wiggins< no role >
John Matthews< no role > , and James Johnston< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our
Sovereign Lord the King, how when where and in what manner and said John Ryall< no role > come to his Death
Say upon their Oaths That the said John Ryall< no role > on Monday the 18th, day of February Instant being Lunatick
and not of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding did come alone to a certain Liver called the Riven of Thames
a Little beyond Peterborough House on Milbank in the said Parish of St, John the Evangelist and did then and
there Voluntarily throw and last himself into the said River, and was then and there Drowned

And so the said Jurors upon their Oath say that the said John Ryall< no role > came to this Death by the
came aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to
this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the day Year and at the Peace aforesaid

Jno. Feary< no role >
Coroner
Thos. Rigg< no role >
Foreman