London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint George Botolph lane
in the Ward of Billinsgate
in London aforesaid
on the fourth day of November in the thirty Seventh 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 boy whose name is unknown
now here lying dead by the oath of
Christopher KFaulkner< no role >
Robert Orr Simon
Howard
Richard Duffin< no role >
Thomas Phipps< no role >
John Bates< no role >
William Coates< no role >
Daniel Clark< no role >
William
Adams James Trimmer< no role >
James Kember< no role >
John Coleman< no role >
and
Simon Cook< 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 boy whose
name is unknown to the said Jurors came to his death say upon their oath that
the said boy whose name is unknown to the said Jurors 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 boy whose name is unknown to the said Jurors
did then and there die In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Christopher KFaulkner< 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 abovewritten.
Christopher K Faulkner [mark] Foreman