Middlesex
to wit}
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell
in the County Middlesex
, the Seventeenth 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 Oour said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
Thomas Robinson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Arnold< no role >
,
Thomas
Randall< no role >
,
John Wilson< no role >
,
John Hall< no role >
,
William Taylor< no role >
,
Adam Scott< no role >
,
Robert Byford< no role >
,
Joseph Taylor< no role >
,
John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
,
John Cautcher< no role >
,
William Merchant< no role >
,
Thomas Eele< no role >
William Shoebrooke< no role >
,
Charles Maybrick< no role >
,
John Berger< no role >
,
John Thomas< no role >
,
Thomas Wheeler< no role >
and
Robert Maberby< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law is required and
[..] Who
being
Prisoners within the said Prison, which said lawful Man and Prisonersbeing then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
Thomas Robinson< no role >
came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas
Robinson on the seventh Day of October in the Year a aforesaid being on Board a Ship
called The Palliser then lying in the River Thames
at King Edward Stairs in the
Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
Thomas Robinson< 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
Thomas Robinson< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said
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in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune came to his Death
In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroners, as the said
Thomas Arnold< 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 abovementioned.
Thos. Phillips< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
Thos. Arnold [mark] Foreman