London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Mary Somerset in the Ward of Queenhithe in London
aforesaid on the nineteenth day of November in the thirty thirdsecondYear of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
Kang defender of the faith and so forth 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 James Thompson< no role > now here lying upon the Oath of William Liddon< no role > , Robert Benham< no role > ,
Joseph Farmer< no role > , John Evans< no role > , Henry Trotbeck< no role > , Thomas Lyon< no role > , Charles Lawrence< no role > , Robert
Day, Thomas Wilson< no role > , John Cox< no role > , Thomas Chi [..] , Charles Gilburn< no role > , Purdon William Plankett< no role >
and John Millward< 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 how and
in what manner the said James Thompson< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that
the said James Thompson< no role > on the fifteenth day of November in the year 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 James Thompson< no role > wid then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said James Thompson< no role > in manner and by the
means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Lideon< 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 there hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Willm Liddon [mark] Foreman