MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell
in the County of
Middlesex
, the Fifth Day of March 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
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Petty< no role >
,
Peter Wallace< no role >
,
Thomas Street< no role >
,
John Heartnell< no role >
,
George Hagleton< no role >
Christian Awe< no role >
,
Thomas Cannon< no role >
,
Anthony Carlatte< no role >
,
Samuel Buckley< no role >
,
Miles Dudley< no role >
Edward Barkley< no role >
and
Thomas James< 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 White< no role >
came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
John White< no role >
on the Fifteenth Day
of January in the year aforesaid being endeavouring to get into a Lighter then
lying on the River Thames
. It so happened That he the said
John White< no role >
then
and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and
was for the waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said
[..] he the said John
[..] the
[..] Oath aforesaid
[..]
[..]
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
James Telley< 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
James Tetley [mark] Foreman