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 Seventh Day of May 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
James William Fletcher< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Wallace< no role > , Edward Barkley< no role > , Thomas James< no role > , Thomas Arcot< no role > , John Clark< no role > ,
Clark Melling< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > , Charles Woodward< no role > , James Thatcher< no role > , Anthony
Carlatty, Miles Dudley, and Dennis Donavan< 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 James William< no role > Fletcher came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said James William< no role > Fletcher on the Fifth
Day of May in the year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Thirteen years or thereabouts
And being on the Gunnell of a Lighter then lying on the River Thames at New Crane in
The Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said James William< no role > Fletcher
then and there accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell from the said Lighter into The
River aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of
which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said James William< no role > Fletcher then and there died
[..] Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said James William< no role >
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Peter Wallace< 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

Peter Wallace< no role > [mark] Foreman