MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty seventh Day of August 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
Francis McCombie< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Eames< no role > , William Elliott< no role > , William Lucas< no role > This name instance is in set 4191. , James French< no role > , John Clear< no role > , John
Mears, James Randle, Thomas Newman< no role > , Thomas Cox< no role > , George Bow< no role > , William
Russell< no role > , Griffin Boardman< no role > , James Powell< no role > and William Lincoln< 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 Francis McCombie< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Francis McCombie on the Twentieth
Day of August in the Year aforesaid being Coming down the Bow of a Ship called The
Happy Return then lying in The River Thames at Union Stairs in the Parish and County
aforesaid It so happened That he the said Francis McCombie< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Bow 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 Francis McCombie< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
[..] by the Means aforesaid
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Eames< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellow, 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. Eames [mark] Foreman