MIDDLESEX
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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 Twenty second 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 Allen< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edward King< no role > , Thomas Amos< no role > , John Breckell< no role > , John Wakefield< no role > , John Hooper< no role >
William Pettit< no role > , William Appleford< no role > , William Papell< no role > , Thomas Parker< no role > , Robert Burdard< no role >
John Newton< no role > and William Read< 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 Allen< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Allen< no role > on the Eighteenth Day
of March in the Year aforesaid being on the Main Stay of a certain Ship called
The Augustus Casar then lying in the River Thames at [..] Stairs in the Hamlet
aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid and being [..] down Tackle
in [..] set up then Main Rigging of the said Ship [..] happened That he the
[..] there accidentally [..]
[..]
[..] then
[..] upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the [..] Allen [..]
[..] means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune laid to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Edward King< 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

Edwd. King [mark] Foreman