City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the Country of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King,at the Parish of St. 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 Seventh day of August in the Seventeenth 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 Kingston< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Sulton< no role > , Thomas Mist< no role > , Francis Beaver< no role > , Henry Tombes< no role > , George Jeffreys< no role > , Robert
Haymes< no role > , Daniel Fryer< no role > , Philip Thomas< no role > , Richard Purslow< no role > , Nicholas Preston< no role > , John
Jones< no role > and Thomas Jones< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Kingston< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Kingston< no role > on the Fifth day
of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish in the Liberty and Country aforesaid
going into a certain Water near to Chelsea Water Works Bridge there to Bath himself
it so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said John Kingston< no role >
was in the Said water Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said John Kingston< no role > then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said John Kingston< 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 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Joseph Sutton< no role > [mark] Foreman