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 twenty fourth 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
John Webb< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Wallace< no role > Christian Awe< no role > James Thatcher< no role > Charles Mellon< no role > Henry Phillips< no role >
Anthony Carlattee< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > Thomas Cannon< no role > Samuel Buckley< no role > Robert Greig
Thomas Simpson< no role > and John Teasdale< 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 Webb< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Webb< no role > on the Twenty second Day
of September in the Year aforesaid being in a Lighter to the said Jurors unknown
which was then lying in the River Thames at New Crane Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid And
being endeavouring to Jump from the said Lighter to another Lighter lying there to the said
Jurors also unknown [..] there also lyingIt so happened That he the said John
Webb then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River
And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the [..] then and there Died And so the Jurors
[..] John Webb< no role > Manner
[..]
to his Death [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Peter Wallace< 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

Peter Wallace< no role > [mark] Foreman