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 Evangelist in 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 Fifth day of January in the Tenth 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
Stephen Rogers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert Watson< no role > ,
Robert Wright< no role > , Emanuel Lloyd< no role > , Thomas Blackmore< no role > , John Easton< no role > , Alexander Ennis< no role > ,
John Spiller< no role > , Robert Ashton< no role > , Josiah Twichell< no role > , Thomas Brooks< no role > , John Scott< no role > , Thomas Eade< no role > ,
Richard Lane< no role > , Peter Dunbabin< no role > and Joseph Carr< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Stephen Rogers< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Stephen Rogers< no role > on the Third
day of January in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated
in the River Thames , to Wit, at Mill Bank near the Horse Ferry, in
the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, That
the said Stephen Rogers< no role > had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body,
but 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 Fellows, in their presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and
Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Robtt Watson< no role > Foreman