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 seventh day of
December in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain Etc . 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 John Petra now
here lying dead by the oath of Mordacai Norton< no role > Thomas Bastin< no role > John Langhilt Samuel
Watkins George Ovington Griffith Williams< no role > George Squire< no role > William Cook< no role > Elisha Collier David
Reddie James Haynes< no role > and Morris Jones< 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 John Petra< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said John Petra< no role > on the twenty fourth day of December in the year aforesaid
being passing along a certain wooden plank leading from a certain wharf there situate
into and upon a certain vessell then lying on the River of Thames It so happened that
the said John Petra accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from and off the said
wooden plank 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 John
Petra did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said John Petra 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 Mordacai Norton< 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

Mord Norton< no role > [mark]