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 Twenty Eighth Day of September 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
John Stafford< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Wale< no role > James Anderson< no role > Charles Matten< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role > James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. Mark
Macdenell John Dolder William Thomas< no role > Thomas Saycock< no role > James Thatcher< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > Samuel Kerridge< no role >
John Bryan< no role > William Clapton< no role > and Christain Awe< no role >
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 John Stafford< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Stafford< no role > on the Twenty first
Day of September in the Year aforesaid being in a certain Lighter on the River
Thames at King James's Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid And being
Endeavouring to make fast the said Lighter It so happened That he the said
John Stafford< 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 John Stafford< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say That the said John Stafford< 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 Thomas Wale< 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

Thos. Wale [mark] Foreman