MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of August 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
a Negro Boy called Limerick then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Eames< no role > , John Abrans< no role > , John Marshall< no role > Graham Williams< no role > , William Lincoln< no role > , Robert Watts< no role >
Joseph Meeres< no role > , John Meeres< no role > , Cornelius Herrington< no role > Henry Perry< no role > , William Fletcher< no role > and David Andrews< 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 Negro Boy called Limerick came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Negro Boy called Limerick on the
seventh Day of August in the year aforesaid being on Board a certain Ship called
The Noble Bounty then lying in The River Thames at King Edward Stairs in the
Parish and County aforesaid and being endeavouring to bear off the said Ship from
a certain other Ship called The Symetry which was then and there foul of the said first
mentioned Ship It so happened That he the said Negro Boy called Limerick
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 Negro Boy called Lemerick and there died
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Negro
Boy called Limcrick 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 Eames< 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 Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Thos: Eames [mark] Foreman