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 Sixteenth day of October 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 Samuel Joseph Goodman< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Oakly< no role > , John Blackbourn< no role > , James Bell< no role >
John Williams< no role > , John Forty< no role > , James Robinson< no role > , Nicholas
Bond< no role > , James Shepherd< no role > , WIlliam Crewe< no role > , John
Alsop< no role > , John Griffith< no role > , Theobald Archer< no role > Thomas Tampton< no role >
and Joseph Parmer< 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 Samuel Joseph Goodman came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Samuel Joseph Goodman
an Infant on the thirteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid
being alone at Play in the Footway upon Mill Bank in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
it so happened that the said Samuel Joseph Goodman the
Infant did then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fall down off and from the said Foot way into the
River Thames and in the Water of the said River was then
and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said Samuel Joseph Goodman then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Samuel Joseph Goodman
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
Thomas Oakly< 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 > Coroner

Thos: OaklyForeman