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. 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 Fifth day of June in the Twentieth 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 Candler< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Steeres< no role > , Thomas Griffis< no role > , Nathaniel Gardner< no role > , John Moir< no role > ,
Thomas Cummins< no role > , Vincent Armitage< no role > , Stephen Brickward< no role > , Peter
Taylor< no role > , Samuel King< no role > , William Martin< no role > , Peter Connely< no role > , Edward
Wayler< no role > and William Sheppard< 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 Candler came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said John Candler on the
third day of June in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, going
into the River Thomas to bath himself, It so happened
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune he the said
John there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation
and Drowining he the said John Candler then and
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Candler
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death, and
not otherwise.

In Witness where of as well the said
Coroner , as the said John Steeres 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 Hards
and Seals, the Day Year and Place abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Jhn Steeres [mark] Foreman