MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John Wapping
in the County of
Middlesex
, the Sixteenth Day of September 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
Daniel Wise< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Lucas< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
Thomas Coe< no role >
William Elliott< no role >
Cuthbert Hayes< no role >
Joseph Meers John
Meers
Thomas Eames< no role >
John Gray< no role >
George Creighton< no role >
William Taylor< no role >
James French< no role >
Richard Moore< no role >
Andrew Norling< 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
Daniel Wise< no role >
came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
Daniel Wise< no role >
on the Thirteenth Day of
September in the year aforesaid being a Mariner
on Board a Ship called The Chance
then lying in The River Thames
at Bell Dock
Wharfin the Parish and County
aforesaid And being endeavouring to top up the Fore Yard of the said Ship It so
happened That the Boom of the said Ship then and there accidentally casually and
by Misfortune fell upon the Head of him the said
Daniel Wise< no role >
By Means whereof he
[..] said Daniel
[..] there received
[..] Fracture in and upon the
[..] Wise of
[..]
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Lucas< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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
Wm Lucas [mark] Foreman