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 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 Twentieth day of July 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
Francis Jennings< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Salt< no role > , John
Flemming< no role > , Benjamin Curtis< no role > , John Smith< no role > , John Ballesett< no role > , John Apprese< no role > , John Orton< no role > , William
Nichols< no role > , Jonathan Billings< no role > , John Kington< no role > , Edward Gilliam< no role > , Thomas Bottlesby< no role > , Leonard
Rotteram< no role > , James Barnett< no role > , Nicholas Salterille< no role > , John Smith< no role > , and James Johnson< 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 Francis Jennings< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said Francis Jennnings on the Nineteenth
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid (to wit)
at a certain Bridge near to Chelsea Water Works, being standing on the top of the Railing
of the said Bridge and being intoxicated with Liquor, it so happened that Accidentally
Casually and by misfortune he the said Francis Jennings< no role > fell from the Top of the Railing
of the said Bridge into the Waters running under the Said Bridge and in the said Waters was
then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
Francis Jennings< no role > then and there instantly Died. And to the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Francis Jennings< no role > 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 at the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of
the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the
place abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner .
John Salt< no role > Foreman