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. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of Decembe r in the Thirteenth 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
Martin Cascater< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Cranage< no role > , Thomas Abbott< no role > , Josiah Day< no role > , Evan Tucker< no role > , John Murless< no role > , Alexander
Dudgeon< no role > , Jenkin Morris< no role > , William Johnson< no role > , Charles Healy< no role > , John Wright< no role > ,
Samuel Middleton< no role > John Gossart< no role > , John Bruce< no role > , James Watson< no role > , Samuel
Wigg< no role > and John Steers< 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 Martin Cascater came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Martin Cascater on the Thirteenth
day of December in the Year aforesaid, in the Evening, being
walking upon and over certain Boats and Barges Floating
in and upon the River Thames , that is to say, at Hungerford
Stairs in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said
Martin Cascater then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell into the said River Thames , and in the Water,
and Mud or Slime in the said River, was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Martin Cascater then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Martin Cascater
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 Thomas Cranage< 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 > Coroner .

Thos. Cranage< no role > Foreman