Middlesex ,
to wit

{
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the
Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County Middlesex the Fifth Day of October 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 Clack< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Adolphus Hill< no role >
John Wallace< no role > , Martin Erhart< no role > Peter Scott< no role > , John Shingler< no role > , Edward Cockle< no role >
John Thurgood< no role > , John Alexander< no role > , Francis Goderich, John Scoffin< no role > , John
Handley and Obadiah Reese< 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 Clack< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said John
Clack on the Twenty fifth Day of September in the Year aforesaid being in
an open Boat on the River Thames at Limehouse Hole in the Hamlet
aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he
the said John Clack< no role > then and there accidentally, casually and by
Misfortune fell from the said Boat 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 Clack< no role > then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Clack< 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, Adolphus Hill< 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

Adolphus Hill [mark] Foreman