London

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Allhallows the great in the Ward of Dowgate in London
aforesaid on the eight day of July 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 William Burridge< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William
Whaits, John Cuchton< no role > , Joseph Parry< no role > , Claudins Chervet, Henry Dady James< no role >
Barker, Joseph Pear, Robert Dodd< no role > , Thomas Dobson< no role > , Thomas Savill< no role > , William Terry< no role > ,
and James Mote< 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 Burridge< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said William Burridge< no role > then lately before accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell into the River of Thames there 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 Burridge< no role > did then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid do say that the said William Burridge< no role > 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 William Whaits 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.

W Whaits [mark]