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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourth day of August 1792 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 Anthony
Gell< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of John Henry Simpson< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Francis Wright< no role > , James Grover< no role > , Henry Sumpter< no role > , John Jones< no role >
Thomas Horwood< no role > , Richard Randall< no role > , John Holmes< no role > , Henry Meddon< no role >
John Bates< no role > , Henry Rowed< no role > , James Barron< no role > , Philip Dixon< no role > , Richard
Waggon< no role > Richard Poppell< no role > , John Adams< no role > John Rook< no role > and
Richard Jubb< 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 Henry Simpson< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say that the said John Henry Simpson< no role > on the
Second day of August, in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty aforesaid To Wit in a certain Canal near unto the dwelling
House of Thomas Simpson< no role > the Father of the said John Henry
Simpson< no role > situate near the water waks commonly called Chelsea
Waterworks at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid, was found
donuend and suffocated, that the said John Henry Simpson< no role > had no Macks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how
or by what means he became drowned and suffocated, no
Evidence thereof detle appeal to the Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said Francis Wright< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their
Presence leave to this Inquisition set their hands and
Seals the day Year and Place abovewritten

Anthy Gell< no role > [mark] Coroner
Fras Wright< no role > [mark] Foreman