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 ninth Day of April 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
John Wade< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Abraham Ray< no role > , David Stiff William Bayford< no role > Edward Wood< no role > John Porter< no role > William Smith< no role >
James Armidstead< no role > John Hagon< no role > Thomas Dickenson< no role > Thomas Carpenter< no role > David
Brown and Thomas Griggs< 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 John Wade< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Wade< no role > on the seventh Day of
April in the Year aforesaid being on Board a Ship called Tho. Hastings then Lying
in The River Thames at Blackwall Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish
and County aforesaid And being laying the upper Grating over the Hatches
of the said Ship It so happened That he the said John Wade< no role > then and there
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from The Upper Deck of the said Ship
to the Lower Deck thereof By Means whereof the Check of him the said John
Wade was then and there broken and dislocated, Of which said Breaking and
Dislocation he the said John Wade< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Wade< no role > [..] 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 Abraham Ray< 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

Abram Ray [mark] Foreman