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 Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of March in the Tenth 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
William Gregory< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Greenway< no role > , Peter Gough< no role > , Joseph Carr< no role > , John Would< no role > , Robert Vaughan< no role > , Edward
Hayes< no role > , William Godboult< no role > , Robert Taylor< no role > , Thomas Hutchinson< no role > , Robert Smith< no role >
Richard Lane< no role > and Thomas Stanley< 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 William Gregory< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said William Gregory< no role > a Watchman on
the Twenty fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid, being by the side of the
River Thames upon Mill Bank in the Parish aforesaid within the City
Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said William
Gregory< no role > , being old and infirm, accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell into a Sluice or open Sewer, there running into the River Thames , by
Means whereof the said William Gregory< no role > in the Water and Mud in the said
open Sewer, was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Gregory< no role > then and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said William Gregory< no role > in manner and by the Me [..] ns aforesaid,
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not
otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said Thomas Greenaway< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, of 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
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Thos. Greenaway< no role > Foreman