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. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteenth
Day of Mayin the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third by the Grace 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 Thomas Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the
Oath of James Wear< no role > , Benjamin Hinton< no role > , George Hamblen< no role > , Thomas Burnett< no role > , James
Mc. Dougall< no role > , Isaac Avery< no role > , William Robinson< no role > , Edmond Martin< no role > , Edward Hayes< no role > , Thomas
Nickson< no role > , Samuel Wigg< no role > , William Tweed< no role > , Alexander Stuart< no role > , William Johnson< no role > , William
Clendon< no role > , Thomas Eaton< no role > , and William Forster< 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 Thomas Taylor< no role > came to his Death do upon their Oath
say, That the said Thomas as Taylor on the Eleventh day of May in the Year aforesaid
being in a certain Vessel loaden with Coals and lying in the River Thames in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, And that it so happened
that the said Thomas Taylor< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and from
the said Vessel into the said River Thames , and in the Waters thereof was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas
Taylor< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Taylor< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, came to his Death, and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said James Wear
Foreman of the said Jurors on the 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
Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

James Wear< no role > Foreman