MIDDLESEX
(to wit.) }

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at [..]
Saint Paul [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty Second [..] in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Herman Wessells< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Christian Awe< no role > , Miles Dudley< no role > , John Pouncely, Thomas Street< no role > , Samuel Shepheard< no role > , Charles Mollin< no role > , James
Thatcher Charles Folkes< no role > , David Nightingale< no role > , George Kitchen< no role > William Cooper< no role > Thomas Laycock< no role > and
William Rowed
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Herman Wessells< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Herman Wessells< no role > on the Nineteenth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being a Mariner .belonging to a certain Ship
called The Maria Catherina then lying on the River Thames at Saint Catherines
Stairs in the Precinct of Saint Catherine in the County aforesaid and being
Endeavouring to go up the Side of the said Ship It so happened That he the said
Herman Wessells< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell
into the said River and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated
and drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning He the said Herman Wessells< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Herman Wessells< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Christian Awe< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Christian Awe [mark] Foreman