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 Saint Margaret in the City of Westminster , within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Twenty
sixth 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 > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, on View of the Body of George Dodd< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Avery Vokins< no role > , Edward Wilson< no role > , Williams Holdsworth< no role > , John Martin< no role > , James Astlet< no role > , William Hodgson< no role > ,
Rodolph Glanber Harris< no role > , Humphrey Goddard< no role > , Isaac Day< no role > , Nathaniel Bagshaw< no role > , Charles Thomas< no role > ,
Thomas Moses< no role > , Joseph Haisty< no role > , Samuel Cannon< no role > , George Newton< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Joseph Baylis< no role > and Christopher Day< 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 George Dodd< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the
said George Dodd< no role > on the Twenty third day of July in the Year aforesaid, at a certain Place
called Parliament Stairs in the said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, going into the River Thames , there to Bath himself, It so happened that accidentally
casually and by misfortune he the said George Dodd< no role > was in the Waters of the said
River then and there Suffocated and Drowned; of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
George Dodd< no role > then and there instantly Died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said George Dodd< 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 Avery Vokins< 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 first abovementioned.

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

Avery Vokins< no role > [mark] Foreman