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 third 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
Robert Slater< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Thatcher< no role > William Rowed< no role > Darby Canon< no role > John Prior< no role > Anthony Carlatte Williams< no role >
Benson Charles Foulkes Thomas Braid< no role > Robert Roberts< no role > David Saunders< no role > James Hay< no role > and
William Davies< 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 Robert Slater< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Robert Slater< no role > on the Twentieth Day of
of December in the year aforesaid being a Mariner on Board a Ship called The Pompey then
Lying in The River Thames at Limehouse Hole in The Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall
in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County aforesaid and being walking
Between the Decks of the said Ship It so happened That he the said Robert
Slater then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the Hold of
the said Ship By Means whereof he the said Robert Slater< no role > then and there
received One Mortal Fracture in and upon the Skull of him the said Robert Slater< no role >
Of which said mortal Fracture he the said Robert Slater< no role > then and there instantly died
[..] the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Robert Slater< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid [..] and
by Misfortune Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Thatcher< 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
Jas Thatcher [mark] Foreman