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 John the Evangelist
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 October 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
Thomas Gray< no role > a Labourer then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Stratford< no role > , John Mitchell< no role > William Oare< no role > , Alexander Lane< no role > , Edward Wiggins< no role > , George Mills< no role > ,
Paul Wilson< no role > , Richard Bunney< no role > , Benjamin Roads< no role > , Charles Kither< no role > , John
Ansell< no role > and Robert Watson< 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 Thomas Gray< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Gray< no role > a Laborer on the
said Seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Barge
leaden with Cork, upon the River Thomas at Fletcher's Wharf in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and there
employed with other Men to unload the said Barge It so happened that the said Thomas
Gray< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell out of and from the
said Barge into the River Thames , and in the Water and Mud, was then
and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Thomas Gray< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas
Gray< 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
Stratford< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Wm. Stratford< no role > [mark] Foreman