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 tenth Day of November in the twenty sixth 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
Thomas Coopers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Mather< no role > , Paul Johnson< no role > , Christian Awe, Alexander Small< no role > , William Rowed, Robert Maberly< no role > , John Whitington< no role >
William Davis< no role > , James Anderson< no role > ; George Trotter< no role > John Hall< no role > Thomas Wheeler< no role > , and John Pounceby

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 Thomas Cooper< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Cooper< no role > on the Twenty ninth Day of
October in the Year aforesaid being an Board a Ship called The Alfred then lying in the River
Thames at Bell Wharf in the Parish and County aforesaid and being on the Quarter of the
said Ship endeavouring to clear a Barge from the same It so happened That he the said Thomas
Cooper then and there accidentally casually and by misfortune fell from the said Quarter of the
said Ship 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 Thomas Cooper< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Cooper< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Mather< 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

Robert Mather [mark] Foreman