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 Saint Margaret 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 Eleventh day of August 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
John Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Anthony Fry< no role > ,
John Cock< no role > , John Hanmier< no role > , Samuel Baugh< no role > , Miles Walls< no role > , William Chapman< no role > , Alexander
Allen< no role > , Joseph Bailis< no role > , Richard Prickards< no role > , Joseph Moore< no role > , Thomas Spencer< no role > , John Lowry< no role > , and
William Woodhall< 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 John Taylor< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Taylor< no role > on the Tenth day of August
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and City and County aforesaid to wit at the back of the
Dwelling House of the Right Honourable the Earl of Lincoln in V. Stephens Court going
into the River Thames there to Bathe himself, it so happened that accidentally casually
and by Misfortune he the said John Taylor< no role > was in the Waters of the Said River then and
there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Taylor< no role >
then and there instantly Died. And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said John Taylor< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually
and by Misfortune come to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of the
Said Poors have to this Inquisition Set their hands and Seals the day and Year above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Antho Fry< no role > Foreman