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 Twelfth Day of February 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, in View of the Body of
Herman Brinkman< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas James< no role > Christian Awe Miles Dudley Samuel Birkley< no role > Charles Foulkes
John Prior< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role > Thomas Cannon< no role > John Harris< no role > Robert Grig Dennis
Donnavan and John Holling yard
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chose, 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 Herman Brinkman< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said [..] Herman Brinkman< no role > on the Twenty fifth day
of January in the year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid
being going up the side of a certain Ship to the Jurors aforesaid Unknown
then lying in the River Thames at Church Hole in the said Parish
It so happened that he the said Herman Brinkman< no role > then and there
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell Backwards into the River
aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and there Suffocated and
Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning She the said Herman
Brinkman then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do Say that the said Herman Brinkman< no role > in manner and
by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came
to the Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas James< 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

Thos. James [mark] Foreman