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 Eighth Day of October 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
Robert Wood< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
David Charles< no role > James Ladson< no role > , James Wallis< no role > Michael, Christian Owe< no role > , George Hagleton Charles
Melling, John Prior< no role > , Peter Wallis< no role > Michael Fenning< no role > , William Rowed< no role > Miles Dudley< no role >
and John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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 Robert Wood< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Robert Wood< no role > on the Twenty seventh Day
of November in the year aforesaid being in a Lighter to the Jurors aforesaid unknown
then lying on The River Thames at Polican Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid
And being stepping from the said Lighter into another Lighter to the said Jur [..] also unknown then and
there also lying It so happened That he the said Robert Wood< no role > 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 said Robert Wood< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Robert Wood< no role > in Manner and by
the means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said David Charles< 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
David Charles [mark] Foreman