[..] indented taken for our [..]
[..] in the County [..] the [..] [..] of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third, [..] Grace of God of Great Britain, [..] Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville one of the [..] of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Joseph Ford< no role > and Joseph [..]
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Upton< no role > Benjamin
Mitchell< no role > , Philip Barbet< no role > , Nathaniel Deam< no role > , James Jaques< no role > , Jesse Rivers< no role >
James Haywood< no role > , Ralph Lazenby, John Drake< no role > , George Slade< no role > , John Cheshire< no role >
Joseph Anderson< no role > , John Chapman< no role > , Abraham Day< no role > and Samuel Hooker< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and 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 Joseph Ford< no role > and
Joseph Bridge< no role > came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Ford< no role > and
Joseph Bridge< no role > on the Twenty third Day of September in the year aforesaid at
the Parish and in the County aforesaid having gone down into a Brewers Vatin
in which a Quantity of Beer had been then lately Brewed It so happened That
thesaidaccidentally, casually and by Misfortune They the said Joseph Ford< no role > and
Joseph Bridge< no role > were by the Strength of the Effluvia arising from The Remains
of the Ingredients of the said Beer then and there suffocated and stifled Of which
said Suffocation and Stifling they the said Joseph Ford< no role > and Joseph Bridge then
and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That
the said Joseph Ford< no role > and Joseph Bridge< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally, casually and by misfortune came to their Deaths

In Witness whereof, as well [..] the said Coroner, as the said John Upton< 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 and Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Upton< no role > [mark] Foreman