MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar & Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of January 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
William Conolly< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Vaines< no role > John Haynes< no role > John Went< no role > Thomas Goody< no role > John Corbett< no role > John Grace< no role >
James Ollive< no role > Joseph Free< no role > Thomas Warwick< no role > John Wallace< no role > Charles Prudence< no role > and
Martin Erhert< 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 William Conolly< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Conolly< no role > on the Fourteenth
Day of January in the Year aforesaid being a Foremast Man on Board a certain
Ship called The Lord Townsend then lying in the River Thomas at Batsons Dock at Limehouse Hole in
the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and being by aforesaid and being in toxicated with strong Liquor
It so happened That he the said William Conolly< no role > then and there accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune [..] Ship By Means whereof he the
[..] id William [..] Mortab Bruises [..] and upon
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Vaines< 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
Jos Vaines [mark] Foreman