Middlesex
(To wit)}

An Inquisition indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of
Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth Day of September 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 William Sheales< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of William Heard< no role > George Graham< no role >
Thomas Mowatt< no role > , Timothy Solowell< no role > , Stephen Hester< no role > , Hall Thomas Yates< no role > , Mathew Hayes< no role >
Robert Church< no role > , Thomas Armytage< no role > , John Darling< no role > , Thomas Singleton< no role > and Benjamin Sayer< 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 William Sheales< no role > came to his Death do, upon their Oath, say, That
the said William Sheales< no role > on the thirty first Day of October in the Year aforesaid being a watchman
on Board a Ship called The Hector then lying in The River Thames It so happened That he the
said William Sheales< 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 William Sheales< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William Seales 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 Heard< 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

W Heard [mark] Foreman