MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Ann [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the fifth Day of November in the twenty third 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 May< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Bargh James Braithwaite< no role > Robert Brown< no role > Briderick Cope< no role > James Davies< no role >
John Drom John Henry< no role > Habbercome Williams Visper< no role > Edward Addison< no role > Richard Jones< no role >
Moses Pile< no role > James Rankin< no role > & Richard Wicker< 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 May< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John May< no role > on the Thirty first Day
of October in the year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called The Ostrich
then Lying in The River Thames near Shadwell Dock in the Parish of Saint
Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid And being endeavouring to Jump from
thence to a certain other Ship then lying there [..] to the Jurors aforesaid unknown
It so happened That he the said John May< no role > then and there accidentally casually
and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the Water thereof
then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Joseph May< no role > there and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
[..]
the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Bargh
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 Bargh [mark] Foreman

No. 8
Napping
On John Maclean< no role >
Found Drowned: