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 tenth 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
Thomas Wright< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Anthony Carlatte< no role > William Benson< no role > Charles Woodward< no role > Richard Harris< no role > Samuel Buckley< no role >
Robert Burton< no role > Christian Awe< no role > John Teasdale< no role > John Goater< no role > David Charles Charles< no role > Mallen
Frederick Miller< 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 Thomas Wright< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Wright< no role > on the Twenty ninth
Day of May in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the age of Twelve Years or thereabouts
And being at play with several other Boys on Board a Ship called The Benjamin and Mary
then lying in The River Thames at Ratcliff Cross in the Hamlet of Ratcliff in the Parish
of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of Middlesex It so happened That he the said
Thomas Wright< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said
Ship 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 Thomas Wright< no role > then and
[..] Do say That [..]
Thomas Wright< no role > [..]
Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Anthony Carlatte< 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
Antone Carlatte [mark] Foreman