MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary White Chapell in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth Day of July 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
Joseph Sharp< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Charles Meyer< no role > , James Plumber, Thomas Giggett< no role > , Samuel Gundry, William Swan< no role > , Benjamin
Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176. , Henry Stevens< no role > , William Clark< no role > , John Rogers< no role > , Samuel Monk< no role > , Joseph Chesney< no role > This name instance is in set 3174. , John Hawes< no role >
James Mathews< no role > and Charles Earle< 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 Joseph Sharp< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Joseph Sharp< no role > on the Twelfth Day of July
in the Year aforesaid being coming down certain Stairs in the Dwelling House of William
Lammas situate at Stratford in the Parish of Westham in the County of Essex It so happened
That he the said Joseph Sharp< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from
the said Stairs upon the Wooden, Floor at the Bottom thereof By means whereof he the said
Joseph Sharp< no role > then and there received a Mortal Compression on his Brain Of which said
mortal compression he the said Joseph Sharp< no role > from the said Twelfth Day of July in the Year
aforesaid untill the Fourteenth Day of the same month in the same Year at the Parish last
aforesaid and also at the Parish [..] abovementioned to wit in [..] London Hospital there
situate did Languish and Languishing did Live, On which said Fourteenth Day of July in
the Year aforesaid he the said Joseph Sharp< no role > at the Hospital aforesaid of the mortal
Compression aforesaid did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
That the said Joseph Sharp< 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 Charles Meyer< 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
Chas. Meyer [mark] Foreman