MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth 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
Ralph Crow< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Cooper< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > Christian Anne George Haggleton< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > William Benson< no role >
Thomas Laycock< no role > Anthony Corlatte Robert Davis< no role > , John Pounseby< no role > Charles Bacon< no role > and William Thompson< 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 Ralph Crow< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Ralph Crow< no role > On the Eighth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid being a Mariner on Board a certain Ship called The Elizabeth
then lying in the River Thames at Shadwell Dock Stairs in the Parish and County
aforesaid and being Catting the Ancher of the said Ship It so happened That he the
said Ralph Crow then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell 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 Ralph Crow< no role > then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Ralph Crow 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 William Cooper< 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
William Cooper< no role > [mark] Foreman