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 Fourth day of January in the Twelfth 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
a Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry Pitt< no role > ,
William Peirce< no role > , Mark Gano< no role > , Richard Beare< no role > , Anthony Andrews< no role > , James
Chamberlain< no role > , Thomas Jenkins< no role > , John Dixon< no role > , Lewis Manning< no role > , James Johnson< no role > , James
Barnet< no role > , James Mc. Cartney< no role > , Thomas Rickets< no role > and John Silk< 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 Man Unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the Second
day of January in the Year aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune, was Suffocated and Drowned in the river Thomas, in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Man Unknown then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Man unknown Accidentally Casually, and by
Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Henry Pitt< 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 above written

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Henry Pitt< no role > [mark] Foreman