MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Precinct
of Saint Catherine in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fifth Day of March 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
Avery Tennis< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Hall< no role > Charles Gibbs< no role > Alexander Callam< no role > John Dawson< no role > John Brent< no role > John
Lockey< no role > John Frankson John Wyatt< no role > James Randall< no role > Jethro Weatherstone< no role > This name instance is in set 2817. William
Carbinall< no role > George Elliott< no role > William Davis< no role > and John Greaton< 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 Avery Tennis< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Avery Tennis< no role > on the Twenty third
Day of March in the Year aforesaid being Master of a Ship called The Sarah
then lying in the The River Thames at Saint Catherine Stairs in the Precinct and
County aforesaid And being endeavouring to get into the Cabin of the said Ship
through the Window of the said Cabin It so happened That he the said Avery
Tennis 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 Avery Tennis< no role > then and there
Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Avery Tennis 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 William Hall< 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

Wm Hall [mark] Foreman