City and Liberty
of Westmister
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of Saint Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of July 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 Robert Ellis< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Higley< no role > , Saul Richardson< no role > , Thomas Kent< no role >
Joseph Chorley< no role > , James Darley< no role > Thomas Cope< no role > , Benjamin
Booty< no role > John Elsworth< no role > , James Blurt< no role > , William
Trundell< no role > , James Jones< no role > , Joshua Johnston< no role > , and
Thomas Shirt< 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 Robert Ellis< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Ellis< no role > on the
Eleventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, going into
the River Thames within the Liberty and County
aforesaid there to Bath himself. It so happened
that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune he
the said Robert Ellis< no role > was in the Water of the said River
then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Robert
Ellis< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Robert Ellis< 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 James Higley< no role > 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 .

Jas: Higley [mark] Foreman