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 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
Thomas Hay< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Abrams< no role > , Mark Snellgrove< no role > , David Wallace< no role > , Edward Sutton< no role > , John Lyon< no role >
William Easter< no role > , Joseph Hare< no role > , Joseph Meeres< no role > , Mason Lisk< no role > , Thomas Coe< no role > James
Powell< no role > , Charles Brown< no role > , John Holden Smith< no role > and John Lambert< 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 Thomas Hay< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Hay< no role > on the Thirteenth Day of
June in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell from a Ship
called The Ranger (then lying in the River Thames near Saint Catherine's Stairs in
the Precinct of Saint Catherine in the County aforesaid) 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 Thomas Hay< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Hay< 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 John Abrams< 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
Jno Abrams [mark] Foreman