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 Eighth day of July in the Sixteenth 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
Mathew Davies then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Kettlewell< no role > , Samuel Pryor< no role > , Robert Harris< no role > , John Hawkins< no role > , David Taylor< no role >
Jeremiah Johnson< no role > , James Hoare< no role > , Edward Baythorn< no role > , John Thompson< no role >
Richard Carter< no role > , William Branch< no role > , William Markins< no role > , James Knowles< no role > ,
William Miller< no role > and James Barber< 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 Mathew Davies< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said Matthew Davies< no role > on the
Seventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, being at Play by the side
of the River Thames in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said Matthew Davies< no role >
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into said River
Thames , and in the Waters thereof was then and there Suffocated
and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he
the said Matthew Davies< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Matthew
Davies< 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 Joseph
Kettlewell< 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

Joseph Kettlewell< no role > [mark] Foreman