City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex ,}
to wit,

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of William Carpensal< no role > the Sign of the Coach & Horses Mount Street parish of St. 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 twelfth day of June 1797
in the thirty seventh 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 [..] an Infant Male Child then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are here under written, and
Seals affixed, 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 Male Child Son came to h is Death, do upon
their Oath say that on Friday Evening last theday of June
in the year aforesaid at the parish and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit
in a certain Barge then & there being on a branch of the River Thames
commonly called. Pimlico Creek . It so happened that
accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said Child fell from
the said Barge into the said River and in the Waters thereof was
then and there suffocated and drowned; of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said Male Child then and there instantly died. And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Male Child in manner and by the Means
aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune
came to his death and not otherwise.

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jurors, have to this Inqusition
set their Hands and Seals the Day, Year, and Place first above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner } [mark]
John Clarke< no role > [mark]
James Smith< no role > [mark]
John Ladly< no role > [mark]
William Carponent< no role > [mark]
John Watts< no role >

Lewis Jeanneret< no role > [mark]
Wright Hart< no role > [mark]
John Nicholas< no role > [mark]
Will. Gadden< no role > [mark]
Meyer Rothenburg< no role >
[..] emburg [mark]

Richd Wardle< no role > [mark]