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 ninth 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
George Addison< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Goater< no role >
,
George Creighton< no role >
,
John Francis< no role >
,
Thomas Coe< no role >
,
John Meers< no role >
,
Richard Ounse< no role >
Joseph Meers< no role >
,
Jonathan Thompson< no role >
,
Hector Goodfellow< no role >
Mark Snellgrove, Griffin
Boardman
William Chapman< no role >
and
William Johnson< 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
George Addison< no role >
came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
George Addison< no role >
on the Twenty sixth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the
River Thames
at a Place called The Dung Wharf
in the Parish and County aforesaid
and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said
George Addison< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
George Addison< no role >
in manner and by the means
aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune come to his Death
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
John Goater< 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
John Goaters [mark] Foreman