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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth day of May in the twenty fourth
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 William Lewis< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Robert Keatt< no role > , Edward Rawlins< no role > James Douglas< no role >
Richard Smith< no role > Nathaniel Galsworthy< no role > , Henry Eastman< no role >
James Gibbs< no role > David Berry< no role > , Thomas Fletcher< no role > John
Oldfield< no role > , Abraham Sampel< no role > and Thomas Hawkridge< 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 Lewis< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say ,That the said William Lewis< no role >
on the fourth day of May in the Year aforesaid
was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River
near the Fire Engine at Pimlico 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 Keatt 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 abovementioned

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Robt. Keatt< no role > [mark] Foreman