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 Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the Eighteenth day of January in the Fifth 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 Samuel Syar< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath
of John Thomlinson< no role > , Francis Thomas< no role > , Richard Bromley< no role > , James Dungard< no role > , Giles Blackman< no role >
William Daniel< no role > , Robert Wright< no role > , William Baker< no role > , Robert Patton< no role > , James Lloyd< no role > , George Buckham< no role >
Andrew Peters< no role > , and Thomas Huntley< 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 Samuel Syarcame to his Death, do upon their
Oath say, That the said Samuel Syar a Soldier, was on the Seventeenth day of January
in the Year aforesaid, found drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames , to Wit,
on Mill Bank, in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid
That the said Samuel Syar 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 Thomlinson< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

John Thomlinson< no role > Foreman