City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations taken this Fourth day of
April 1766 at the Parish of St. John the Evangelist
within the City and Liberty of Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex on an Inquisition taken on View
of the Body of Thomas Wrightson< no role > lying Dead in the
said Parish City Liberty and County.

Daniel Longley< no role > a Corporal in the First Regiment of
Foot Guards on his Oath saith, that the Deced's Name [..]
Thos.Wrightson< no role > , That he was formerly a private Soldier in
the same Regiment with Deft. and that he was Discharged there from
about there Years ago, at the Reducement, Says that he has
not seen the Deced for one Year and an half last past
that the Deced when he was in the Regiment drank
very much, and behaved in an outrageous, manner
when in Liquor

Daniel Longley< no role >

Robert Curtis< no role > of the Hornferry Road Beadle of the Parish
of St. John the Evangelist Westmr on his Oath saith That
yesterday about Six o'Clock in the afternoon a Boy came to his
form Mr. Barlow who keeps the White Hart on Mill Bank as said Parish
to acquaint him that a Man was Drowned in the River
Thomas and taken out by a Waterman near his House
Says that he went there immediately and found the Deced
lying upon some Tanber, fastened to a Tree by a Rope tie
around the Deceds Arm, the Tideebbing, which left the
Deced on Shore, Says that he observed no Marks of
violence upon the Deced, That Mr. Barlow gave him
this Dept. a Pocket Book containing several Papers, two
Pencils, and a pair of Spectacles, which the Waterman
(whose Name Mr. Barlow said he did not know) gave to
Mr. Barlow saying that he had taken them out of the Deceds
Pocket, and that a pair of Seissars were afterwards found
in his Packet, Says that he Acquainted the Church wardens
of said Parish therewith, and that the Bearers were
immediately sent for the Deced, who brought him in a Shell
to the Burying Ground of said Parish.

Robt. Curtis< no role >

Severall Sworn the Day Year
& Place abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .