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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of July 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
Ralph Rutledge< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry Wilson< no role > ,
George Tate< no role > , Robert Bray< no role > , George Fairbone< no role > , Timothy Good< no role > , John Dover< no role > , William Arnold< no role > ,
Thomas Nicholson< no role > , James Coring< no role > , John Taylor< 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 Ralph Rutledge came to
his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Ralph Rutledge on the Thirtieth
day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, at Mill Bank, going
into the River Thames thereto bath himself, It so happened that Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune he the said Ralph Rutledge was in the waters
of the said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said
Suffocation and Drowing he the said Ralph Rutledge then and there
died: And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the
said Ralph Rutledge, in manner and by the Means aforesaid, Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Henry Wilson< 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 Wilson< no role > [mark] Foreman