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 twenty fourth 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
on view of the Body of Richard Sims< no role > then and there lying dead upon the Oath of John
Porter Thomas Pattinden John Herbert< no role > George Atkins< no role > , John Warman< no role > John Ham< no role >
Thomas Green< no role > Peter Davy< no role > , Henry Lawman< no role > , John Barnett< no role > Benjamin Lamden< no role > John
Cheefer, James Thornton< no role > and John Green< 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 Richard Sims< no role > came to his Death, do
upon their Oath, say That the said Richard Sims< no role > on the Twenty third Day of
December in the Year aforesaid being on a Deal Board which he had laid between
the Fore Channell and the Port of a Ship called The Southampton then lying in the
rect Dock at Blackwall Yard in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid It so happened That he the said Richard Sims< no role > then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell from thence into the said Dock And was in the
Waters therein contained then and there suffocated and drowned of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said Richard Sims< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said Richard Sims< 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 Porter< 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 Porter< no role > [mark] Foreman