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 twenty first day of January in the twenty eighth
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
Josias Harley< no role >
,
Alexander Renney< no role >
,
Richard Popple< no role >
John Walter< no role >
,
Thomas Balanger< no role >
,
James Chamberlain< no role >
,
William Hall< no role >
,
John Stent< no role >
,
William Lloyd< no role >
,
William Jeggars< no role >
William Rowkes< no role >
, and
Henry Howed< 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 unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Man unknown on
the nineteenth day of January in the year aforesaid
was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River under
the Water Works Bridge in the said Parish of Saint
George Hanover Square
within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appeared on
the Body, but how or by what means the said Man
unknown became Drowned and Suffocated no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner
, as the said Josias Harley< 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
abovementioned
Tho. Prickard< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
Josias Harley [mark] Foreman< no role >