MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty first Day of April in the twenty fifth 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
Peter Trattles< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Mark Snelgrove< no role > , Thomas Coe< no role > , Joseph Meeres< no role > , Thomas Alsworth, John Clark< no role > , Robert
Bower, Robert Garbutt< no role > , William Pearce< no role > , JohnGeorge< no role > Peace, Leonard< no role >
Barginall and Cornelius Harrington< 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 Peter Trattles< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say That the said Peter Trattles< no role > on the Tenth Day of
April in the Year aforesaid being on Beard a Ship called The Charlotte then lying in
The River Thames at Wapping Old Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid and
being asleep on the Starboard Cat Head of the said Ship It so happened That he the said
Peter Trattles< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from thence
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 Peter Trattles< no role > then and there died
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Peter Trattles< no role >
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 Mark Snelgrove< 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

The Mark of
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Mark Snelgrove [mark] Foreman