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 Martin in the Fields
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 Sixteenth 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
Charles Green< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Morris< no role >
Richard Kilsby< no role > , Thomas Berridge< no role > , George Hawkwell< no role > , Charles Rogers< no role > , John Hammond< no role > , Samuel
Towell< no role > , James Ayres< no role > , John Dixon< no role > , John Topham< no role > , John Sutter< no role > , and Thomas Gray< no role >
good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Charles Green came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Charles Green on the Fourth day of August
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint Mary Le Strand in the Liberty aforesaid in the County
aforesaid to wit near to Somerset Stairs going in to the River Thames there to Bathe himself
it so happened that accidentally casually and by Misfortune he the said Charles Green was
in the waters of the said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said Charles Green then and there instantly Died. And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their [..] aforesaid do say that the [..] Year on
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 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 > Coroner
Jas. Morris
Foreman< no role >