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 nineteenth 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
William Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Paulin< no role > , Thomas Canon< no role > , Charles Malling< no role > , George Hagleton< no role > , Thomas James< no role > , Edward
Evans< no role > , William Rowed< no role > , William Whitaker< no role > , John Pounseby< no role > , Anthony Carlaton< no role >
Peter Wallis< no role > , Christian Awe< no role > , Charles Foulks< no role > and Samuel Burkley< 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 William Taylor< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Taylor< no role > on the Twelfth Day
of July in the year aforesaid being a Mariner on Board a Ship called The Friends then lying on the River Thames , at
King James's Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid And being intoxicated with
strong Liquor It so happened That he the said William Taylor< 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
[..] there died [..] upon their Oath
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Paulin< 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

James Paulin [mark] Foreman