City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Colligiate Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day
of September in the Fourth 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 Fort [..]
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 Charles Lukey< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Henry
Bellamy< no role > , George Goodwin< no role > , Joseph Hudson< no role > , William Powman< no role > , John Linley< no role > , William Dewer< no role > , Mervil Harman< no role > , William
Croft< no role > , Richard Kirby< no role > , Robic Sherwin< no role > , John Flaxman< no role > , Charles Hathaway< no role > , Thomas Hoblethwaite< no role > , James Brow< no role >
Richard Oldfield< no role > Lewis Edwards< no role > , & John Veitch< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty Duly 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 Charles Lukey< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath Say,
That the said Charles Lukey< no role > , on the Eighteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, was
found Drowned and Suffocated in the the River Thames , to Wit, at a certain Place called
Hungerford Stairs , in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, That the said Charles Lukey< no role > had no Marks of Violence appearing on
his Body, but how or by what means the said Charles Luke became drowned and
Suffocated, no Evidence thereof Doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said Henry Bellemy, 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Henry Bellemey< no role > [..]