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

An Inquisition indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden in the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St
Peter in Westminster in the County of Middlesex the fifteenth day of June in the Second 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 and so forth before Thomas Prickard< no role > Coroner of our said Lord the King for
the said City and Liberty on View of the Body of John Wilkinson< no role > an Infant then and there lying Dead
upon the Oath of Samuel Bungey< no role > William Hight,< no role > Daniel Bower< no role > , George Massiot< no role > , John Revered< no role > , Robert Monday< no role > , Alexander
Macdugan< no role > , Edward Smith< no role > William Gardner< no role > John Davis< no role > , Thomas Hays< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role > , John Stokes< no role >
John Hart< no role > Christopher Golding< no role > & Charles Wilkinson< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how
and by what means the said John Wilkinson< no role > came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say,
That the said John Wilkinson< no role > on the fourteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid being playing
with other Boys at a certain place called King's Whart near the River Thomas in the Parish of Saint
Clement Danes within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said John
Wilkinson< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the said River and in the Waters thereof
was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John
Wilkinson< no role > then and there Died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that
the said John Wilkinson< 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 Samuel Bungey< no role > Foreman,on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said
Jurors in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and Place abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner
Samll Bungey< no role > foreman