Westminster

Informations of Witnesses taken this 15th. day of
July 1776 at the Dwelling House of Mr. Simmonds the
Sign of the Margins of Granby's Head Water works Bridge
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the Liberty
of Westminster . Before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman
His Majesty's Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westmr .
on View of the Body of Samuel brent in the said
Parish then and these lying Dead.

Thomas Rock< no role > of Battersea in Surry near the Red House Whiten
Maker on his Oath saith that on Saturday last between 3 & 4
o'Clock in the Afternoon he was called to the opposite shoe to
endeavour to take up the Deced who he understood was Drowned
in the Thames there, and in about three Quarters of an Hour he
took up the Deced with a fravelling Iron, and the Body of the
Deced was guite clear and free from any Burise on Wound, and
Mr. North and Mr. Harris Surgeons were sent for and the Dead
was Rubbed with Sabt, and several other methods were used under
the Surgeons directions to recover the Deced, but after two Hours or more
all applications proved ineffectual.

Thomas Rock< no role >