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 Fourth Day of December 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
William Bean< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Wallace< no role > , Thomas Braid< no role > , Charles Mellen< no role > James Hatcher< no role > , Thomas Cannon< no role >
George Hagleton< no role > , John Prior< no role > , Samuel Shepherd< no role > , Samuel Brickley, Anthony
Carlatte, William Knox< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > and John Goater< 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 William Bean< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Bean< no role > on the First Day of
December in the year aforesaid being a Foremast Man on Board a Ship called
The Ten month Castle then lying in the River Thames And being Handing the
Main Top< no role > sail of the said Ship It so happened That he the said William Bean< no role > their and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the Top sail yard of the said Ship into the
Top By Means whereof he the said William Bean< no role > then and there received
One Mortal Fracture in and upon the Skull of him the said William Bean< no role > of
which said Mortal Fracture he the said William Bean< no role > then and there instantly
Died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said William Bean< no role > in Manner [..] the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came 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