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 fourth Day of December 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
Patrick Fitzgerld< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Christian Awe< no role > Frederick Miller< no role > Thomas Street< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > Nicholas Howaple John
Cockran Charles Folks William Watson< no role > Thomas Hampshire< no role > William Pledge< no role > Thomas Gardoner< no role >
Anthony Cartalle< no role > & Darby Cannon< 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 Patrick Fitzgerald< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Patrick Fitzgerald< no role > on the Seventeenth
Day of November in the Year aforesaid being stepping from the side of a certain
Ship called The Manning then lying in the River Thames at Shadwell Dock Stairs in
the Parish and County aforesaid [..] Lighter then and there also Lying there
It so happened That [..] Patrick Fitzgerald< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune [..] and was in the [..]
thereof then and [..] said Suffocated [..]
[..] he [..] And [..]
[..] upon
Manner and lying [..]
cause 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< no role >