MIDDLESEX
(To wit.) }

AN INQUISITION Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish,
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the fourth Day of July in the Twenty first 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 Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Pratt Sidlington< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Paul< no role > in Peter Wallace< no role > Anthony Carletle< no role > Samuel Wiffin< no role > Robert Blades< no role > , William Willis< no role > , Miles Dudley< no role >
Thomas Eannon< no role > William Benson< no role > Thomas Laycock< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > and Thomas Measure
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 Pratt Sidlington< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Pratt Sidlington< no role > on the Twenty ninth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on The River Thomas near
New Crane Tier in the Parish and County aforesaid And being receiving of Timber
from out of a certain Ship then lying there called The Betsey It so happened That
He the said Pratt Sidlington< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell into The River aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated
and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning He the said Pratt Sidlington< no role >
then and there Died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That
the said Pratt Sidlington< 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 James Paulin< 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
James Paulin [mark] Foreman