MIDDLESEX
(To wit.) }

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of July in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, 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
John Steele< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Street< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role > Samuel Buckley< no role > William Benson< no role > Christian Awe< no role > Miles Dudley William Willis< no role >
Frederick Miller< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > Andrew Petrie< no role > Darley Cannon< no role > John Paunceby< no role > Thomas Measure, and
Richard Hudson< 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 John Steele< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Steele< no role > on the sixth Day of July
in the year aforesaid being on Board a certain Ship called The Freedom then lying on
The River, Thames It so happened That he the said John Steele< 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 John Steele< no role > then and there did And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Steele< 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 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
Thos. Street [mark] Foreman