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 Billingsgate in London
aforesaid on the twenty third 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 & 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 is unknown now here lying dead by the oath of George Boggis Michael< no role >
Bedwell James Robinson< no role > John Hall< no role > Richard Blackman< no role > Charles Lock< no role > Robert Holdey< no role >
William Coates< no role > Simon Cook< no role > James Kimber< no role > John Rice< no role > William Rickard< no role > and Major
Bull 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 whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown came
to his death say upon their oath that the said man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is unknown on the twenty second day of November in the year aforesaid being in and
on board of a certain vessell then lying and being in the River of Thames It so
happened that the said Man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown accidentally
casually and by misfortune fell from and out of the said Vessell into the said River
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 whose name to the
Jurors aforesaid is unknown did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said Man whose name to the said Jurors in unknown
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
George Boggis< 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

G Boggis foreman [mark]