Middlesex ,
to wit

{
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Parish of Shepperton
in the County Middlesex , the Twenty fourth Day of September in the twenty fifth 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, Etc. before Thomas Phillips< no role > one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of James King< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Samuel Crofts< no role >
William Sanders< no role > , Jeremiah Body< no role > , Thomas Tillard< no role > , Peter Andrews< no role > , Alexander
Rosewell, John King< no role > , William Enticknap< no role > , John Paine< no role > , Francis Allnutt< no role >
Richard King< no role > , William Young< no role > , Philip Smeeth< no role > , Samuel Cooker< no role > , John Underwood< no role >
William Rance< no role > and James Taylor< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by law required and who being, then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said James King< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said James
King on the Sixteenth Day of September in the Year aforesaid being with three
others in an open Boat on the River Thames It so happened That the said
Boat then and there suddenly overset and sunk into the River aforesaid By
Means whereof he the said James King< no role > was in the Waters of the said River
then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune suffocated and drowned
Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said James King< no role > then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said James King< 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, Samuel Crofts< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first abovementioned

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Saml. Crofts [mark] Foreman