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 Twenty fifth 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
Robert Dobson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas James< no role > , Caleb Carter< no role > , Edward Barkly< no role > , Thomas Charles< no role > , John Pownceby, Samuel
Buckley< no role > , John Mason< no role > , Samuel Pacy< no role > , Edward Evans< no role > , William Meredith< no role > , Thomas
Cross< no role > and James Rubidge< 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 Robert Dobson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Dobson< no role > on the Twenty third Day
of June in the Year aforesaid being in a Barge to the Jurors aforesaid unknown then
lying in The River Thames at Hanover Hole and being handing Deals from a Ship then
lying there called The Lord Rodney. It so happened That he the said Robert Dobson< no role >
then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from the said Barge 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 Robert Dobson< no role > then and there died
But so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Robert
Dobson 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 Thomas James< 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 > Coroner
Thos. JamesForeman