MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Twelfth Day of July 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
Hugh Groat then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Passey< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Gabriel Hoane< no role > , Richard Anderson< no role > , Michael Golding< no role > , William Hobbs< no role >
Solomon Wise< no role > , Nathaniel Aylmer< no role > ,and John Newton< no role > , David Brand< no role > , John Mansell< no role >
Richard Motley< no role > and William Seymour< 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 Hugh Groat came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Hugh Groat on the Eighth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid being endeavouring to go [..] from a Ship to the Jurors
aforesaid unknown which was then lying on The River Thames at Stone Stairs in the
Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid into a Boat then lying near the said
Ship It so happened That he the said Hugh Groat then and there accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune fell into The River aforesaid And was in the waters thereof then and
there [..] Drowned [..] said S [..] to the said
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Passey< 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

Thos. Passey [mark] Foreman