[..] 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
A Man called Dirk then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Street< no role > , Samuel Buckley< no role > , Samuel Shepheard< no role > , Anthony Carlatte< no role > , John Rippen< no role > , Christian Awe
Mills Dudley< no role > , Robert Blades< no role > , Charles Mellin< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > , Thomas Cannon< no role > , William Walter< no role > , Richard
Parker, John Pownseby< no role > , and Nathaniel Williams< 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 man called Dirk came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man called Dirk on the Twenty ninth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell
into The River Thames at Execution Dock in the Parish of Saint John Wapping in the County aforesaid and
was in the waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Man called Dick then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Man called Dirk 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 Thomas Street< 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