MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet of
Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the third Day of December 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
Zephaniah Jordan< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Wallis< no role > John Handley< no role > Florence Sullivan< no role > Michael Weymouth< no role > Joseph Campion< no role > Martin Erhart
Samuel Ewan< no role > James Malone< no role > Peter Scott< no role > John Scoffin Richard Brasier< no role > Adophus Hill< no role > and William Allen< 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 Zephaniah Jordan< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Zephaniah Jordan< no role > on the first Day of December
in the Year aforesaid being on a piece of Elm Timber floating in The River Thames at Lime
Kiln Dock in the Parish of Saint Ann in the County aforesaid It so happened That he the said
Zephaniah Jordan< no role > then and there accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell from the
said Piece of Timber 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 Zephaniah Jordan< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the
said Zephaniah Jordan< 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 John Wallis< 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

John Wallis< no role > [mark] Foreman