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 Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of
Marchin 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 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 box< no role > , Richard Matthews< no role > , Richard Priest< no role > , George
Hawcroft< no role > , Hugh Douglas< no role > , Silas Payne< no role > , Ambrose Biddle< no role > , Benjamin Balewin< no role > , Emanuel Lloyd< no role > , Thomas Castell< no role > , Peter
Jackson< no role > , William Holmes< no role > , Richard Bromley< no role > & Thomas Greenaway< 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 Man Unknowncame to Death, do upon their Oath say, That the
said Man Unknown on the Ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid, was found
Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames to Wit, at a certain place called Mill Bank in the said Parish
of St. John the Evangelist , within the City Liberty and 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 Cox< 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 Cox< no role > Foreman