MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the thirty first 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
Thomas Morgan< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Wilcox< no role > Edward Jones< no role > John Jackson< no role > James Hicks< no role > in Thomas Venables< no role >
Richard Coosier< no role > John Wagon< no role > Joseph Smallwood< no role > John Porter< no role > Thomas Carpenter< no role >
Thomas Griggs< no role > and John Mazey< 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 Thomas Morgan< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Morgan< no role > on the Twenty second
Day of November in the year aforesaid being in a Lighter on The River Thames
at Blackwall Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish of and County aforesaid
It so happened That he the said Thomas Morgan< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Lighter into the River aforesaid And was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said Thomas Morgan< no role > then and there Died and So the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Morgan< no role > in
[..] and by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune

IN WITESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Wilcox< 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

William WillcoxForeman