City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. John the Evangel within the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteenth day of
April in the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of
God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas
Prickard< no role > Gentleman , Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of
the Body of a Man Unknown then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Robert Watson< no role > , [..]
Mathews, John Higgs< no role > , Josiah Swichell< no role > , George Mallard< no role > , John Lane< no role > , Thomas Sawyer< no role > , Marshall
Fleet< no role > , Thomas Parker< no role > , Richard Baker< no role > , Josiah Kimbery< no role > , Peter Ball< no role > , John Morris< no role > , Robert
Golding< no role > , Thomas Gunter< no role > and Stephen Bouchet< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen
who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for Our said Lord the King
when, how, and by what Means the said Man Unknowncame to his Death, do
upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the Twelfth day of April in the
Year aforesaid, was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames in a certain
Place called Mill Bank in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County
aforesaid, That the said Man Unknown had no Marks Violance appearing on his
Body, ut how or by what Means he became Drowned and Suffocated no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Robert Watson< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and
the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals, that Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Robt Watson Foreman