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 Seventeenth 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
John Cushen< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Sherman< no role > , Edward Linthwaite< no role > , Christian Awe< no role > , William Rowed< no role > , Samuel Pay< no role >
James Mason< no role > , Lawrance Sinclair, John Thurger, George Hunter< no role > , William Wilkins< no role >
William Davis< no role > , William Mitchell< no role > , Timothy Mc Daniel< no role > , John Stanford< no role > and John Buck< 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 Cushen< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Cushen< no role > on the fifteenth Day of
June in the Year aforesaid having gone into the River Thames near George Alley in
the Parish and County aforesaid (in order to Bath himself) It so happened That he
the said John Cushen accidentally, casually and by Misfortune was in the waters
of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said John Cushen< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said John Cushen< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune court to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Sherman< 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 Sherman [mark] Foreman