MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty second 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
Derk Klamb then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Russell< no role > , Benjamin Robinson< no role > , John Bluck< no role > John Mears< no role > , William Veasey< no role > ,
Paul Morthost, William Elliott< no role > , Charles Bacon< no role > , Robert Pilgrim< no role > , Joseph Mears< no role > ,
Thomas Coe< no role > , and John Clear< 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 Derk Klamb came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Derk Klamb on the Tenth Day of May
in the Year aforesaid being in an open Boat on The River Thames at Saint Catherines Stairs
in the Precint of Saint Catherine in the County aforesaid And being Endeavouring to go on Board
[..] a certain Ship lying there called the Minerva It so happened That he the said Dick Klamb then
and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Boat 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 Derk Klamb then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Derk Klamb in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death

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