MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Leonard Bromley in the County of
Middlesex , the Seventh 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
James Claxson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Pratt< no role > , William Woodward< no role > , Thomas Shireman< no role > John Fuller< no role > ,
William Bailey< no role > , John Clapham< no role > , William Coronial, John Williams< no role >
Hugh Richardson< no role > , Henry Parnell< no role > , James Hinds< no role > , Robert Whitaker< no role > and
William Lewis< 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 Claxson< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said James Claxson< no role > on the Twenty Ninth
Day of May in the year aforesaid being assisting to unload a certain Lighter laden with
Coals which was then lying on The River Lee at The Still House of Messrs. John Le< no role > fevre & Co
in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said James Claxson< no role >
then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in
the waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said James Claxson< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said James Claxson< no role > 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 Richard Pratt< 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
R Pratt [mark] Foreman