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 sixteenth 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
Thomas Jackson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Wardill< no role > , Thomas Church< no role > , [..] Lott, George Hildreth< no role > Thomas James< no role > , William Robson< no role >
John Virtue< no role > , John Pounceby< no role > , George Taylor< no role > , John Leplastrier< no role > , Richard Skipton Nathaniel
Williams and William Rowed.
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 Jackson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Jackson< no role > on the Fourteenth Day of
December in the Year aforesaid being in a Ship called The Henrietta then lying in The River Thames
at King Edward Stairs in the Parish of Saint John Wapping in the County aforesaid And being going
from the said Ship to a certain other Ship then lying there called the Elizabeth It so happened that
he the said Thomas Jackson< no role > then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell from the
said last mentioned 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 Jackson< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Thomas Jackson< no role > in manner and of [..] means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Wardill< 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

Richd Wardill [mark] Foreman