ECR 54 047
Reference code
ECR 54 047
Title
Eton, Buckinghamshire and other properties: Copy of inquisition
Level
Item
Date
18 September 1594
Extent & medium
3 folios
Content description
Copy of an inquisition taken at New Windsor, before Thomas Alden, coroner, upon a view of the bodies of Edward Polker, Richard Aldrydge, Thomas Nicholls, William Goodlucke, John Meade, Ralph Smarte and Edward Buckler. The jury presents that on 16 September James Methode, Walter Plunkett, Edward Polker, Richard Aldridge, Thomas Nicholls, William Goodlucke, John Meade and Ralph Smarte were severally sitting on eight geldings and one Jonah Aldrydge was sitting on a mare and one Robert Gallys and Anne, his wife, were sitting on another gelding on the Batchett ferry boat upon the water of Thames, with various other persons unknown, between the hours of one and two in the afternoon, when Jonah Aldrydge with his mare fell into the water, when the gelding were immediately so frightened that they fled to the rearward part of the ferry, so that the ferry was swamped and the aforementioned were drowned. The geldings, mare and ferry (hippago) were the occasion of the deaths. The geldings and mare were carried to places outside the liberty of New Windsor, unknown to the jury, by persons unknown. The ferry was valued at 5s and is in the custody of one Maurice Feild of Datchett, yeoman. The jury knows not the value of the nine geldings and the mare.
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