London

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 seventh day of January in the thirty fifth 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 a Man whose name to the Jurors
aforesaid is as yet unknown now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Seddon< no role > Thomas
Phipps< no role > William Coates< no role > Edward Motley< no role > Barlow Robert Our< no role > Edward Webster< no role >
James Robinson< no role > James Steed< no role > John Pierless< no role > Stephen Wilkham< no role > John Rice< no role > John Pegg< 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 Man unknown came to his death say upon their oath that the said
man unknown then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune fell into
the river of Thames and in and with the waters of the said River was then and
there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation and drowning the said
man unknown did then and there die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Thomas Seddon< 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.

Thomas Seddon< no role > [mark] Foreman