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 Thirteenth day of April 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 whose Name is unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin
Cann< no role > , Arthur Watkins< no role > , John Baucut< no role > , James Aldridge< no role > , Robert Broom< no role > , Thomas Horne< no role > ,
Thomas Acomb< no role > , William Chambers< no role > , Edward Widder< no role > , William Chandler< no role > , Charles
Hamilton< no role > , Ralph Coughlan< no role > , John Hinton< no role > , David Johnson< no role > , William Stag< no role > , Clement Watts< no role > ,
John March< no role > and William Lambe< 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
Eighth day of April in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and
Suffocated in the River Thames , in a certain place called Mill Bank
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
That no Marks of violence appeared on the Body of the said Man
unknown, but how or by what Means he became Drowned, no
Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said Benjamin Cann< 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
Benjn. Cann< no role > [mark] Foreman