MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Hamlet
of Ratcliffe in the Parish of Stepney 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
Richard Perrott< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Nathaniel Aylmer< no role > , George Breadcutt< no role > , Robert Terry< no role > , Robert Burdard< no role > , William Stafford< no role > John Pyecroft
John Evans< no role > , Thomas Bryan< no role > David Brand< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Gabriel Hane, and John Newton< 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 Richard Perrott< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Richard Perrott< no role > on the Eighteenth
Day of July in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell
from a certain Ship called The Richard then lying on the River Thank's in Bell Wharf Tier in the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid into the said River and was in the
waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning He the said Richard Perrott< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Richard Perrott< 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 Nathaniel Aylmer< 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
Nathl: Aylmer [mark] Foreman