MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint JohnatWapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty 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
a Man called John then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Abrams< no role > , William Elliott< no role > , Joseph Mears< no role > , John Mears< no role > , Cuthbert Hays< no role > , James
French, William Russell< no role > , Thomas Beckett< no role > , James Powell< no role > , Richard Dobeney< no role > , Thomas Evans< no role >
John Alloway< no role > and James Randle< 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 Man called John came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man called John on the Sixteenth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on The River Thames near
Iron Gate and being endeavouring to get on Board a Lighter to the Jurors aforesaid unknown which
was then lying there It so happened That accidentally, casually and by misfortune he
the said Man called John then [..] The River aforesaid And was in the
[..] the [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Abrams< 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

Jno: Abrams [mark] Foreman