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 Fifteenth Day of June 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
Richardson Tate< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Ralph Dodden< no role > , William Linton< no role > , John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William Johnson< no role > , William Whitaker< no role >
William Mitchell< no role > , Andrew Harper< no role > , Rice Jenkins< no role > , Peter Root< no role > , John Hall< no role > , Robert Grieg
James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Thomas Bullard< no role > and Mathew Leinster< 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 Richardson Tate< no role > came to his
Death, do upon their Oath, say, That the said Richardson Tate< no role > on the Tenth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid being an Apprentice on Board a Ship called The Advice
then lying in The River Thames at Bell Wharf Tier in the [..] Parish and County County aforesaidin the
It so happened That he the said Richardson Tate< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Ship 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 Richardson Tate< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Richardson Tate< 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 Ralph Dodds< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himslelf 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
Ralph Dodds [mark] Foreman