London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the parish of
Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe in the Ward of Castlebaynard in London aforesaid on the
eighth day of October in the thirty sixth 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 John Boston< no role > now here lying dead by the
oath of George Bayly< no role > Wilford Tiffen< no role > , Aaron Hale< no role > , Thomas Druce< no role > , Thomas Sharp< no role > , William Priestly< no role > , Thomas
Hargrave,< no role > William Richards< no role > , Richard Fowler< no role > , James Storey< no role > , Joseph Cook< no role > , and Timothy Thomas< 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 John
Boston came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Boston< no role > on the sixth day
of October in the year aforesaid 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 John Boston< no role > did then and there die
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said George Bayly 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.

Geo: Bayly< no role > [mark] Foreman