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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Nineteenth day of August in the Ninteenth 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 Sidall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Musson< no role > , James Lambert< no role > Thomas Yeoman< no role > , Anthony Febury< no role >
John Rose< no role > James Macginnes< no role > , Thomas Hitchins< no role > , John Prichard< no role > , Philip
Walker< no role > , Anthony Sheppard< no role > , William Hollier< no role > , Samuel Daniel< no role > , James
Wilson< no role > John Drinkwater< no role > & Richard Mason< 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 John Sidall came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Sidall on the
Sixteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid being at Work
unloading a certain Barge loaden with Wooden Fellies
in and upon the River Thames at Mr. Hoare's Wharf in the
Parish of St. John the Swancelet. within the Liberty and County aforesaid
It so happened that the said John Sidall then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell over the side
of the said Barge into the River Thames aforesaid and in
the Waters thereof was then and there suffocated and
Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the
said John Sidall then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said
John Sidall 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 James Musson
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

James Musson< no role > Foreman