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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of November in the Twenty Seventh
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 a Man name Unknown then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Road, Francis Payn< no role > , Christopher Hammond< no role > , Thomas Oakley< no role >
William Spencer< no role > , William Peters< no role > , Henry Dispainer, George Smith< no role > , Thomas Rogers< no role >
Robert Hall< no role > , James Bell< no role > , Frederick Wandermude< no role > , and James Kerton< 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 Man name unknown came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said man Name unknown on the
Twentieth day of November in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid being found on the Shore of a certain River called the River Thames
there situate and having been in the Waters of the said River and several small
Mortal Wounds or Shot Holes being on the right Temple of the Head of the Said
Man name unknown which had penetrated through the Skull of which said Mortal
Wounds he the said Man name unknown Died, and there being found in the Pockets
of the said Man name unknown and Iron Pick lock and a Gun Flint the said Jurors
on their Oath aforesaid do say and find that the said Man name unknown was killed
by the Firring of the said Shot by some Person or Persons unknown but whether Feloniously
Wilfully and of his her or there Malice aforethought or in Defence of his her or their
Person or Property no Evidence doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the
said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the
Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm Roads< no role > Foreman