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 Twenty fourth Day of July in the Twenty first 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, 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
Joseph Ainsley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Rowed< no role > , George Hagleton< no role > , John Leplaistrier, William Cooper< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > Anthony
Cartlatte, Charles Melling< no role > , Christian Awel< no role > , Francis Box< no role > , Davis Charles< no role > , Thomas Wilkinson< no role > , and John
Prior
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 Joseph Ainsley< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Joseph Ainsley< no role > on the Twenty second
Day of July in the year aforesaid being in an open Beat on the River Thames near
Shadwell Dock in the Parish and County aforesaid and being skulling the said Boat. It so happened That he the said
Joseph Ainsley< no role > 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 Joseph Ainsley< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Joseph
Ainsley 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 Rowed
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
Wm Rowed [mark] Foreman