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 First Day of November in the twenty Second 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
Robert Barber< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Leplastrier< no role > James Paulin< no role > Jeffery Phillips< no role > John Hachrell< no role > George Haggleton Edward
Barkley Thomas Cannon< no role > Thomas Street< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role > Edward Evans< no role >
Alexander Adams< no role > and William Gray< 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 Robert Barber< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Barber< no role > on the Eighteenth Day
of November in the Year aforesaid being in an open Beat on the River Thames at
Bell wharf in the Parish and be in the aforesaid and being endeavouring to shove
the said Boat from off a certain [..] then [..] lying there It so happened That
the said Boat then [..] casually and by Misfortune filled
with water and [..] Oneans whereof he [..]
[..]
the said Robert [..]
and by Misfortune [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Leplastrier< 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

John Leplastrier< no role > [mark] Foreman