City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , to Wit.}

An Inquisition Indented, taken from sovereign Lord
the King at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Deanan
Chapter of the Cellegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster , in the County of Middlesex ,
the Eighteenth day of September 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 [..]
said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of John Temple< no role > th [..]
and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Young< no role > , Thomas Steers< no role > , Peter Rose< no role > William
White< no role > , Richard Garth< no role > , Edward Arnolds< no role > , John Lavall< no role > , Simon Temple< no role > , James Lambert< no role > ,
John Griffiths< no role > , Edward Taylor< no role > , and Robert Jenkins< no role > good and Lawful Men of thes [..]
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 Temple< no role > came
to his Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said John Temple< no role > on the Sixteenth day of
September in the year aforesaid being with several other Men Rowing in a Beat or Cu [..]
upon the River Thomas in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
It so happened that the said John Temple then and there Accidentally casually and by
misfortune fell out of the said Boat into the River Thames , and in the Waters thereof w [..]
then and there suffocated and Drowned, of which said suffocation and Drowing he the
said John Temple, then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said John Temple 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 Robert Jenkins< no role >
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 abovewritten.

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Robert Jenkins< no role > [mark] Foremen