MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County or
Middlesex , the Second Day of October 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
Mathew Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Samuel Kenidge< no role > Charles Mallen< no role > Thomas Saycock< no role > Thomas Cannon< no role > Christain Awe Robert< no role >
Grieg William Benson< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role > Robert Roberts< no role > Thomas Street< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > and
William Willis< 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 Mathew Smith< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Mathew Smith< no role > on the Twenty first Day
of September in the year aforesaid being endeavouring to step from a certain Ballast
Lighter then lying on the River Thames at King James's Tier in the Parish and County
aforesaid into a certain Boat then lying there It so happened That he the said Mathew
Smith then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the Lighter aforesaid 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 Mathew Smith< no role > then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Mathew Smith< 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 Samuel Kerridge< 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
Saml. Kerridge [mark] Foreman