London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
London that is to say at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the ward of Tower
in London aforesaid on the eighth 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 Edward Sayers< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
John Gray< no role > John Tims< no role > James Hasted John Jones< no role > John Drake< no role > George White< no role >
Robert Adams< no role > William Wardale< no role > James Lamb< no role > John Cracklow< no role > Daniel Jewson< no role >
George Yeomans< no role > William Austin< no role > John Groser< no role > and William Harris< 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 Edward
Sayers came to his death say upon their oath that the said Edward Sayers< no role > on the fifth
day of January in the year aforesaid being in and on board of a certain Vessell then lying and
being on the River of Thames It so happened that the said Edward Sayers< no role > accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said Vessel into the said 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 Edward Sayers< no role > did then and
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Edward Sayers< 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 John Gray< 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 [mark] Gray< no role >