MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the seventh 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
John Oosterberg< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
George Penny< no role > , John Brekett< no role > , Thomas Jewer< no role > , John Holgate, John Blake< no role > , James Kempsell< no role >
John Leenning< no role > , Thomas Alsey< no role > , John Buffam< no role > , John Minsham< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > and
John Long< 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 Oosterberg< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Oosterberg< no role > on the Fourth Day of
March in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Beat on the River Thames at
Ratcliff Cross in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid and
being [..] vouring to an loose a Rope which was made fast to the Cable of a certain
[..] per It so happened That he the [..] Oosterberg then
[..] and by Misfortune [..]
[..] thereof [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said George Penny< 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

George Penny< no role > [mark] Foreman