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 second Day of August 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 Mackenzie< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Pudney< no role > , Griffin Boardman< no role > , Richard Nurse, John Meers< no role > , William Veasey< no role > , William
Stephens< no role > , John Foster< no role > , John White< no role > , Mathew Starkey< no role > , Joseph Meers< no role > , Anthony Mills< no role > , Richard
Moore and Joseph Hare< 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 Mackenzie< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Mackenzie< no role > on the Thirtieth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid being Shopkeeper on Board a ship called The Liberty then lying
in the River Thames at Wapping Old Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened
That he the said John Mackenzie< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune
fell from the said Ship into The River aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there
suffocated and drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Mackenzie< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said John Mackenzie< 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 William Pudney< 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
Wm Pudney [mark] Foreman