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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of October in the Thirty second
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 unknown then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Richard Coles< no role > , John Fenn< no role > , Robert Rogers< no role > , John Fouks< no role >
Thomas Haigh< no role > , Edward Jones< no role > , Malicoy Seward, John Lane , Joseph Poole< no role > ,
William Fish< no role > , Henry Albrow< no role > , Peter Ricard< no role > , James Hagger< no role > , Richard Dawkins< no role > , George
Evans< no role > , John Hayles< no role > and John Dumford< 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 A Man unknowncame to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say,
That on the Twenty Fifth day of October in
the Year aforesaid the said Man unknown was found drowned and
suffocated in the River Thames near Westminster Bridge in the
said Parish of St. Margaret within the Liberty and County aforesaid
that no marks of violence appeared on the Body but how or by
what Means the said Man unknown became drowned no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Richard Coles< 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
Richd Coles< no role > Foreman