London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the Precinct of White Friars
in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the
second day of January
in the thirty third 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 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
Faith Watson< no role >
now here lying dead by by the Oath of
James Rose< no role >
Thomas Hill< no role >
Samuel Stenson< no role >
James Winter< no role >
Richard Ellis< no role >
John Richards< no role >
Edmund Peck< no role >
John Russell< no role >
Edmund Forbey< no role >
William Goodsman< no role >
Thomas Wix< no role >
and Benjamin Sprigings good
and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid who being now here duty chosen sworn and charged
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
Faith Watson< no role >
came to his death say after their Oath that the said
Faith Watson< no role >
on the twenty seventh day of
December in the year aforesaid at the previnch and Ward aforesaid the said Faith Watson 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 drownng
the said
Faith Watson< no role >
is to
[..] die. And so the Jarvis aforesaid upon their Oath
do say that the said
Faith Watson< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally came
and by misfortune was
[..] suffocated and Drowned In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said
James Rose< 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.
James Rose [mark] Foreman< no role >