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 Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of August in the Thirteenth 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, name unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert Fawcett< no role >
Joseph Heagh< no role > , William Organer< no role > , John Poultney< no role > , Nicholas Watars< no role > , Henry Cheese< no role > , Edward Brittan< no role >
Mark Warcupp< no role > , Swinburn Keep< no role > , James Martin< no role > , Abraham Slade< no role > , and John Lewis< 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 Man, name unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Man, name unknown, on the Sixth day
of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, to
wit, in the River Thames near unto the Sign of the Spread Eagle at the Neat Houses
on Milbank in the said Parish Liberty and County was found Drowned and Suffocated
in the Waters of the said River, That the said Man, name unknown had no Marks
of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by what means the said Man, name
unknown, became Drowned and Suffocated no Evidence thereof doth appear to the
said Jurors.In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the Foreman of the
Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place first above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Robert Fansett< no role > [mark] foreman