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 Nineteenth day of January 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 John Walker< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Randall< no role > , John Callington< no role > , Joseph Berry< no role > , George Armstrong< no role >
Henry Hammond< no role > , John Broken, John White< no role > , John Whittock< no role > , James Randall< no role >
Robert Waite< no role > , William Holton< no role > , James Silthorp< no role > , John Baker< no role > , Charles
Taylor< no role > , and Samuel Townshend< 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 John Walker< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Walker< no role > on the Seventeenth
day of January in the Year aforesaid between the Hours of Seven and Eight at
Night Walking along Milbank Row in the said Parish of St. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty and County aforesaid and being very dark and the said John Walker< no role >
intoxicated with Liquor, It so happened that the said John Walker< no role > then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into the River Thames and in the Water
thereof was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and
drowning he the said John Walker< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Walker< no role > Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Randall< 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
John Randall< no role > Foreman