Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty second
day of November in the thirty eighth 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 Thomas Wilson< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
Ambrose Fletcher< no role > , John Langhilt< no role > , James Reynolds< no role > , Edward Pursey< no role > , Emanuel Vaughan< no role > ,
Richard Jones< no role > , Thomas Tyer< no role > , William Fox< no role > , Hugh Davis< no role > , John Winter< no role > , William Robson< no role > ,
John Turner< no role > , & Samuel Watkins< no role > , good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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 Thomas Wilson< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that the said Thomas Wilson< no role > on the twentieth day of November in the year
aforesaid being in and on board of a certain vessell lying and being on the River Thames
there situate It so happened that the said Thomas Wilson< no role > 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 Thomas Wilson< no role > did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas
Wilson in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by
misfortune came to his death and not otherwise-In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Ambrose Fletcher< 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

Ambrose Fletcher< no role > [mark]