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. George Hanover Square -within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of. St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Twenty fifth day of January in the Third
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 a Man Unknown
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Surby< no role > , Thomas Sprigg< no role > , Samuel Norgrave< no role >
Richard Burton< no role > , John Orton< no role > , Richard Beech< no role > , William Wallis< no role > Benjamin Hunt< no role >
Edward Marebeck< no role > Michael Gano< no role > , Benjamin Taylor< no role > Isaac Gardner< no role > and John Towers< no role > ,
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duty chosen, 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 Man
Unknowncame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the
Twenty third day of January in the Year aforesaid, was found Drowned and Suffocated
in a certain open Ditch or Common Sewer running from Knights bridge to the River
Thomas, near unto a Bridge called Bloody Bridge in the saud Parish of St. George Hanover
Square within the Liberty aforesaid in the County aforesaid, that the said Man unknown
had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by what Means he became
Drowned and Suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said John Surby< no role > Foreman of the
said Jurors, on the behalf of Himself and the rest of his said Fellows, 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
John Surby< no role > [mark] Foreman