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. 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 Eleventh day of April- in the Eighteenth 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
Thomas Christey< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry
Foley< no role > , John Scott< no role > , David Davis< no role > , Edward Hall< no role > , John Wallis< no role > , Thomas
Porter< no role > , Paul Astell< no role > , Charles Burg< no role > , James Lloyd< no role > , Edward Clement< no role >
William Peters< no role > and John Granger< 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 Thomas Christey came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Christey on
the Twenty ninth day of March in the Year aforesaid being
in a certain Boat in and upon the River Thames in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and
then and there Sailing down the said River, It so happened
that by a sudden gust of Wind that Boat in which the said Thomas
Christey was sailing was then and there Overset, and the said
Thomas Christey Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
in the Water of the said River Thames was then and there
suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Thomas Christey then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas
Christey 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
Henry Foley< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their presence have to
this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Hen. FoleyForeman