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. John the Evangelist , in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth
Day of July 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 Rowe< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Daniel Twiss< no role > Edward Wiggins< no role >
John Spiller< no role > , Robert Wright< no role > , Francis Norris< no role > , Walter Tyrrell< no role > , William Pawsey< no role > James Lloyd< no role >
Thomas Cassell< no role > , James Baggott< no role > , Richard Bromley< no role > , John Brooks< no role > and John Harriott< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said City and
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 Rowe< no role > came to his
Death, Do upon their Oath say, That on the Eighteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid the said John [..]
with several other Persons being in a certain Boat commonly called a butter upon the River Thomas
near a certain Place called the Horse Ferry in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty of Westminster , which said butter
ran Foult of and struck against a certain Barge floating there, Whereupon the said John Rowe< no role >
[..] the Staff or Boat hook endeavoured to clear the said Cutter of the said Barge, in ordered
to get on Shore at the said Horse Ferry, And the said John Rowe< no role > in such attempt, missing the Barget
which he had pushed against with the said Boat hook, It so happened that the said John Rowe< no role > thereby
accidentally casually and by misfortune fell out of and from the said Cutter into the said River of Thomas and-
in the Waters thereof was then and there suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said John Rowe< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do
say that the said John Rowe< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid, accidentally casually and by misfortune
came to his Death, and not otherwise; And that the said Cutter and the Tackle and Apparel thereto belonging
were moving tothe Death of the said John Rowe< no role > , and are of the Value of forty shillings and the Property
of Robert Clark< no role > of Stand gate in the County of Surry Boat builder. In Witness whereof as well the said Coron [..]
as the said Daniel Twiss Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence have
to this Inquisition set their Hands & Seals the Day Year & Place above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Daniel Twiss< no role > [mark] Foreman