London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the [..] Precinct of Whitefryars in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the sixteenth day of January in the thirty seventh
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 William Mapps< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of Joseph Collings< no role > Francis Long< no role > Richard Bates< no role >
John Smale< no role > William Bowdle< no role > Robert Vickers< no role > George Ross< no role > Thomas Wickhurst< no role > Jeremiah
Guppy< no role > James Woster< no role > William Buckney< no role > Richard Baker< no role > Peter Spencer< no role > and Edward
Forby< 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 William Mapps< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said William Mapps< no role > [..] then lately before accidentally casually and
by misfortune fell into the River of Thames then situate 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 William Mapps< no role > did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said William Mapps< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune
came to his death and not otherwiseIn Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Joseph Collins< 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.

Jos Collins< no role > [mark] Foreman