City and Liberty
of Westmister
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquitition 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 Fifteenth 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
Samuel Brent< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Jacob Welstrup< no role >
John Hornsby< no role > , George Oakley< no role > , John Askburn< no role > , William Carpenter< no role > , George Flear< no role > , Francis
Wright< no role > , Thomas Ball< no role > , William Gibbs< no role > , Joseph Carbong< no role > , William Redhead< no role > , and William
Burt< 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 Samuel Brent came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Samuel Brent on the Thirteenth day
of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid
to wit at the back of the Engine House belonging to Chelsea Water Works going into the
River Thames there to Baths himself it so happence that accidentally causally and
by Misfortune he the said Samuel Brent was in the Waters of the said Rivers
then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning,
he the said Samuel Brent then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Samuel Brent 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 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 first above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Jacob Nalstrap [mark] Foreman< no role >