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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth day of December in the Fourteenth 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
John Rand< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Dudley< no role > , Francis Forman< no role > , John Alride< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Thomas Powers< no role > , James Duke< no role > ,
Thomas Whaker< no role > , Jacob Shedar< no role > , John Allin< no role > , William Brickford< no role > , Henry Feltris< no role > ,
Daniel Whigmore< no role > and Samuel Totty< 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 John Rand< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Rand< no role > on the
Twenty fourth day of December in the Year aforesaid being on
Board a certain Vessel in and upon the River Thames , and
being then and there Intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened
that the said John Rand< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune fall out of and from the said Vessel into
the said River Thames , and in the Waters thereof was then
and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said John Rand< no role > then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said John Rand< 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, as the said William Dudley< 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
Wm. Dudley< no role > Foreman