MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of St. Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Nineteenth Day of April 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 Rayner< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Hicks< no role > , James Brown< no role > , Owen Temple< no role > , Alexander Parke< no role > , James Seabright,
Richard Null< no role > , John Midford< no role > , Jacob Callaway< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , Abraham Clark< no role > ,
John Wallis< no role > , Samuel Springall< no role > , and David Whitehart< 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 Rayner< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Rayner< no role > on the Seventeenth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid being Shipwright at Work in Mr Batsons Yard at
Limehouse Hole in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid and being
endeavouring to take some Deal Planks from Pile of the said Planks then lying [..] in the said Yard so
happened That several of the said Deal Planks then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell upon the said William Rayner< no role > By means whereof he the said William Rayner< no role > ,
then and there received divers mortal Bruises in and upon The Head and Body of him the
said William Rayner< no role > of which said mortal Bruises he the said William Rayner< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
[..] Say That the said William [..] manner
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Hicks< 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

William Hicks< no role > [mark] Foreman