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. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of July in the Eighth 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
Thomas Perrin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Alexander
Kilgour< no role > , Benjamin Foulston< no role > , William Butt< no role > , Abraham Burnell< no role > , James Kenneday< no role >
Alexander Leholah< no role > , Benjamin Thomas< no role > , William Ward< no role > , John Marie< no role > , Richard Beach< no role > , George
Calvert< no role > and Peter Swan< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Thomas Perrin< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Perrin< no role > on the Twenty eighth
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid to wit
at Pimblico going into a Certain Water near or adjoining to Chelsea Water Works , then
to Bathe himself it so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he
the said Thomas Perrin< no role > was in the said Water then and there Suffocated and Drawned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas Perrin< no role > then and there
instantly Died. And so the Juror's aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that
the said Thomas Perrin< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of the rest of the
said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the day and Year
first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Kilgowry [mark] Foreman