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 Margaretin 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 Ninth day of
March 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 Lewis Sulsh< no role > , Sturges Shoveler< no role > Robert Score< no role > Henry Peeke< no role > ,
Thomas Waller< no role > , James Branion< no role > Abraham Longstaff< no role > , Thomas Fisher< no role > , William Simpson< no role >
Nathaniel Clayton< no role > John Harkness< no role > Charles Taylor< no role > Henry Friday< no role > , James Don< no role > , Thomas Cross< no role > , and Samuel Young< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn an [..]
charged to inquire do Our said Lord the King, when how, and by what Means the said Man Unknown
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the Seventh day of
March in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thomas , to wit,
near unto Westminster Bridge at the Parish aforesaid, 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 Lewis Sulsh< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows in their presence, have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and [..] first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Lewis Sulsh< no role > [mark] Foreman