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 Nineteenth 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
William Pearce< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Slater< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role > , James Thatcher< no role > , William Elliott< no role > , Charles
Melling, Richard Hart< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > , Samuel Buckley< no role > , Dennis Donnavan< no role >
Thomas Bullard< no role > , Alexander Low< no role > , James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. and William Walter< 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 Pearce< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Pearce< no role > on the, Fifth Day of
March in the Year aforesaid being on Board a certain Ship to the Jurors aforesaid
unknown [..] lying in the River Thames [..] near the Red House And being
[..] make fast a Rope to the Halser of the [..] so happened
[..] William Pearce< no role > then and there accidentally [..] casually and by
[..] the said Ship into the River [..] the Waters
[..] cated and [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Slater< 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 Slater< no role > [mark] Foreman