London
and
Southwark

T:Shelton
Corr:

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the Parish
of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of Billinsgate in London aforesaid on the fourteenth day of august in the twenty ninth
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said
Lord the King for the city of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of John Turnpenny< no role > now here lying dead by the
oath of John Bates< no role > Thomas Goodwin< no role > John Price< no role > John Jacobs< no role > Robert Burch< no role > Benjamin Butcher Robert Kilday< no role > Richard Duffin< no role >
William Morgan< no role > William Kent< no role > Thuplilis Hearsey< no role > and William Tomlinson< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being
now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when Lord and in what manner the said John Turnpenny< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Turnpenny< no role > on the thirteenth day of August in the year aforesaid at the
Parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into the River Thames
and in and with the Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said suffocation and
drowning he the said John Turnpenny< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said John Turnpenny< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Bates< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 first
above written

Jno. Bates [mark] Foreman