London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon without 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 James Parrott< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Walter Newbon< no role > Charles Child< no role > Samuel Nash Samuel< no role >
Rodbord Charles Moody< no role > James Tayler Richard Francis< no role > Thomas Shallard Robert
Garrick William Boynton Henry Grey< no role > William Gorman< no role > James Jenkinson< no role > John Fowler< no role >
John Turtle< no role > James Hollis< no role > and James Spittle 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 Parrott< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said James Parrott< no role > on the seventh day of October in the year aforesaid
being in a certain vessel lying on the River of Thames It so happened that the said James
Parrott 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 James Parrott< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said James Parrott< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune was suffocated and drowned
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Walter Newbon< 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.

Walter Newbon< no role > [mark]