City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this twenty
Seventh day of November 1787 at the
Parish of St. Margaret within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Thomas Spiers< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

Thomas Mac Cullogh< no role > of Charles Court Strand
Labourer on his Oath saith That he this Dept.
was Yesterday between One and Two o'Clock
upon the River Thames near Scotland Yard
when William Roots< no role > and Edward Root< no role > &
William Gern< no role > called to Dept. saying that
a Person was Drowned in the Canal in
St. James's Park , and desiring Dept. to lend
them his Skiff to try to Same him out
Says that they all assisted to bring the
Skiff into the Park , Says that he saw a
Hole in the Ice near the Middle of the
Canal and was told that the Deced had
fallen in there, upon which the Skiff was
put into the Water there and he went into
it, Says that in about five Minutes
Dept. with his Hetcher got hold of the
Deced's Cloaths and Rulled him out of
the Water and got him to the Shore
appearing to Dept. to be dead Says
that the Deced was carried by George
Richardson< no role > to the Sign of the Robin Hood
in Duke Street in the Parish of St. Margt.
Westmr . where Mr. Hanbury Surgeon and
Apothecary endeavoured for about half
an hour to restore the Deced to Life but
in vain, the Deced being dead this Dept.
being present and assisting the whole time

Thomas [mark] MacCullogh< no role >
his Mark

Sworn the Day Year & Place
abovementioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }