MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the first Day of June 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
Emmanuel John< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Esan Gilbert< no role > , Peter Slath< no role > , Samuel Knightly< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Robert Johnston< no role > ,
Thomas Gibson< no role > , Thomas Paulin< no role > , James Hill< no role > , William Bridgeman< no role > ,
Thomas Oborne< no role > , John Francis< no role > and Richard Ferrell< 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 Emmanuel John< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Emanuel John on the sd First Day of June
in the Year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The King David then lying in The
River Thames near Tower Stairs And being Endeavouring to take out a pipe of Oil from the
said Ship It so happened That he the said Emanuel John then and there were reached himself
and thenand there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into the Hold of the said
Ship By means whereof he the said Emanuel John then and there received One mortal
Fracture in and upon the Skull of him the said Emanuel John of which said Mortal
Fracture he the said Emanuel John then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their On the aforesaid Do say That the said Emanuel John in manner and by the means
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Esau Gilbert< 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
Esau Gilbert [mark] Foreman