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 and so forth before Thomas
Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of out said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the body of Susanna Chapman< no role > now here lying dead by
the oath of George Boggis< no role > Michael Bedwell< no role > James Robinson< no role > John Hall< no role > Richard
Blackman< no role > Charles Lock< no role > Robert Keldey< no role > William Coates< no role > Simon Cook< no role > James
Kimber< no role > John Rice< no role > William Richard< 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 Susanna Chapman< no role > came to her death say upon their
oath that the said Susanna Chapman< no role > on the twenty first day of November
in the year aforesaid being on a certain Quay there situate and near to the River
of Thames called Billingsgate Quay It so happened that the said Susanna< no role >
Chapman accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and off of the said
Quay 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 Susanna Chapman< no role > from the said twenty first day of November in the
year aforesaid until the twenty second [..] day of the same month of November in the
same year did languish and languishing did live and on the said twenty second
day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid of the said suffocation and drowning did die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Susanna Chapman< 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
Jurors 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]