London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(this is to say) at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the Ward of Tower in London
aforesaid on the thirty first day of July in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before Thomas
Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the body of Jeremiah Harris< no role > now here lying dead by the
oath of Charles Burnett< no role > , John Jones< no role > , John Crane< no role > , Joseph Davis< no role > , Michael Warwick< no role > ,
William Brown< no role > Stephen Newman< no role > , Thomas Walker< no role > , Joseph Sard< no role > , Henry Nayler< no role > ,
and John White< no role > William Harris< no role > , Daniel Jewson< no role > , and Edward Roberts< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being
now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when how
and in what manner the said Jeremiah Harris< no role > came to his death say upon their oath
that the said Jeremiah Harris< no role > on the thirtieth day of July in the year aforesaid at the
parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid being in a certain Crane on a Quay there
situate called Ralphs Quay and employed in weighing up a great quantity of Coffee from
a vessel which lay along side the said Quay in order that the same might be landed
on the said Quay It so happened that the said Jeremiah Harris< no role > after the said Coffee was
raised by the said Crane to a considerable heighth went by mistake into the fore part of
the said Crane by means whereof the weight of the said Coffee overpowered the said Jeremiah
Harris< no role > and forced the said Crane round with great velocity and threw the said Jeremiah
Harris< no role > down in and against the sides of the Crane and it so happened that the said
Jeremiah Harris< no role > by being so thrown down in and against the sides of the said Crane
did then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune receive divers mortal bruise
in and upon his head back belly sides and other parts of his body of which said
mortal bruises he the said Jeremiah Harris< no role > did then and there instantly die. And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Jeremiah Harris< 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 Charles Burnett< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on 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.

Charles Burnett< no role > [mark]