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

In Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Watson< no role > , James Lenox< no role > , John Wight< no role > , Mathew Walker< no role > , William Griffiths< no role >
Thomas Lee< no role > , Thomas Wheeler< no role > , Benjamin Bladen< no role > , John Price< no role > , James Lloyd< no role > ,
Charles Inderwick< no role > and Josiah Twitchell< 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 Man unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown on the said
Twenty second day of August in the Year aforesaid was found
drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at Mill Bank in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
That the said Man unknown had no Marks of violence
appearing on his Body, but how or by what Means he became
drowned and suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to the
Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Robert Watson< 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

Robt. Watson< no role > Foreman