City of 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 Margaret
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 November in the Thirty first
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 Charles Rea then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Trollope< no role > , Richard Dyson< no role > , Anthony Fabry< no role > , John
Crockham< no role > , James Barrett< no role > , William Ashdon< no role > , John Whitmarsh< no role >
Thomas Sladon< no role > , Nathaniel Marshall< no role > , Thomas Barber< no role > , John Hales< no role >
and William Brooks< 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 Charles Rea came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That on the said Sixteenth day of
November in the Year aforesaid the said Charles Rea was found drowned
and suffocated in the River Thames near to the Wharf of Thomas Coles< no role >
Timber Merchant situate in Cannon Row in the said Parish of Saint
Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid, that no marks of violence
appeared on th Body but how or by what means the said Charles Rea
became drowned and suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to the
Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said Joseph Trollope< 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 .
J Trollope [mark] Foreman