Southwark

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the king at the parish of saint
John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty second day of
April in the thirty ninth 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 Richard
Love now here lying dead by the oath of John Donaldson< no role > , Thomas Heath< no role > , Charles Lyall,
John Hogg< no role > , John Baker< no role > , James Joyce< no role > , Matthew Flower< no role > , Joshua Huddibull< no role > , John Nottleton,
Thomas still< no role > , Lemuel Liddard< no role > , and Ivon Lenain< no role > , good and lawful men of the
Borough of southwark aforesaid in the County 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 Richard Love< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Richard Love< no role > .
on the twentieth day of April in the year aforesaid being in a certain large which was
floating with the current on the River of Thames there situate did throw one end of a coil
of Rope into a certain Sleep lying on the said River in order to stop the said Barge
and moor it in a certain Sier of Vessels and it so happened that the left leg of the
said Richard Love< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune became on tangled in the
said coil of Rope and the right leg of the said Richard Love< no role > became fastened to the
fore stay hook of the said Barge and the Barge driving down with the current of the
said River the left log and thigh of the said Richard Love< no role > were violently tern from his body
and by means thereof the said Richard Love< no role > did then and there instantly dieand so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Love< no role > in manner and by
the means aforesaidIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John
Donaldson 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

John Donaldson< no role > [mark] Foreman