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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Pater Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty third day of June in the Twelfth Year
of the Regin 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 City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
George Bayley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Singleton< no role >
James Mc.Lane< no role > , John Elmsworth< no role > , William Dellingham< no role > , Thomas Hall< no role > , George Revell< no role > , Joseph Swabey< no role > ,
Francis Gouan< no role > , Morgan Evans< no role > , James Raker< no role > , John Jordan< no role > , Francis Thompson< no role > , Gilbert Edwards< no role > , Benjamin
Goodwin< no role > , Thomas Ingall< no role > and John Brown< 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 George Bayley< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Dayley on the Twenty
first day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, at Ivy Bridge, going into the River
Thames , there to bath himself, It so happened that Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune he the said George Bayley< 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 George Bayley< no role > then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said George Bayley< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his death,
and not otherwise. In Witnesses whereof as [..] the said
Coroner, as the said John Singleton< 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

John [mark] Singleton< no role >
Foreman