London
Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Allhallows the less in the Ward of Dowgate in London aforesaid on the Seventeenth
day of July in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 a man
whose name is unknown now here lying dead by the oath of William Pearson< no role >
George Quint< no role > John Rashbrooke< no role > Edward Evans< no role > Francis Southerby< no role > Thomas Sheppard< no role >
John Mosher< no role > John Walk< no role > William Platt< no role > John Raine< no role > Richard Hunt< no role > and Evan Jones< 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
man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid in unknown came to his death say upon their oath
that the said man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid in unknown 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 man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid
is unknown did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Man whose name to the Jurors aforesaid is unknown 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
William Pearson< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his
follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the
day year and place first above written

Wm. Pearson< no role > [mark]