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 Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of August in the Nineteenth 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 Kings for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
William Carr< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Smith< no role > Benjamin Desborow< no role > , Bartholomew Draper< no role > , Joseph Britton< no role >
William Brown< no role > , John Middleton< no role > George Ridaway< no role > , John Bird< no role > , Thomas Stiff< no role > ,
John Daniel Goll< no role > , William Calvert< no role > , Charles Presbury< no role > , Joseph Parrinton< no role >
John Stevenson< no role > and William Clifton< 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 William Carr< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Carr< no role > on the
Fifteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid being upon a
certain Lighter loaden with Coals and floating upon the
River Thames at Northumberland Wharf in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid and
then and there stepping into another Lighter. It so happened
that the said William Carr< no role > Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell down between the said Lighters into the said
River Thames and in the Waters thereof was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and drowring
he the said William Carr< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said
William Carr< 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 said John Smith< 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

Jno: Smith< no role > Foreman