Middlesex ,
to wit

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Parish of Saint Paul
Shadwell in the County Middlesex , the Ninth 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, Etc. before Thomas Phillips< no role > one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of John Scott< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Andrew
Dowding, Thomas Stratford< no role > , William Wilkins< no role > , George Hunter< no role > , Andrew
Harper< no role > , George Child< no role > , Thomas Bullard< no role > , Thomas Randall< no role > , Samuel
Whiffin, John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Alexander Lowe< no role > , Mathew Lemster< no role > and Thomas
Ele< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by law required and who being, then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said John Scott< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said John
Scott on the fifth Day of September in the Year aforesaid being in an Open
Wherry on the River Thames at King James's Stairs in the Parish and
County aforesaid It so happened That the Stem of a Ship to the said Jurors
unknown which was then sailing up the said River accidentally casually
and by Misfortune hit the said John Scott< no role > , By Means whereof he the
said John Scott< no role > then and there received divers mortal Bruises in and upon
His Head Back and Body And Was then and there forced into the said
River, of which said, Mortal Bruises he the said John Scott< no role > then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That
the said John Scott< 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, Andrew Dowding< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

And: Dowding [mark] Foreman