MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fifth Day of July in the twentyfifthsecond 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
John Turby< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Hidgen Collins< no role > , George Raby< no role > , David Evans< no role > , James Kempsell< no role > , William Wilkinson< no role > ,
James Poole< no role > , Andrew Sheen< no role > , Nicholas Kelly< no role > , John Wallace< no role > , Daniel Christie< no role > , Thomas
Moore and Thomas Daniel< 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 John Turby< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Turby< no role > on the nineteenth Day of
July in the year aforesaid being in a Lighter to the Jurors aforesaid unknown which
was then lying in The River Thames at Stone Stairs in The Hamlet aforesaid in
the Parish and County aforesaid and being Endeavouring to shove out the said Lighter
It so happened That he the said John Turby< no role > then and there accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune fell from the said Lighter into The River aforesaid And so [..]
[..] water [..] of then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said suffocation and
Drowning [..] then and there [..] And [..] aforesaid
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Higden Collins< 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

Higdon Collins [mark] Foreman