MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar Lord Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the sixteenth Day of January 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
David Anderson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Snook< no role > , Paul Rogers< no role > , Peter Channing< no role > , Thomas Woolaston< no role > , William Wilcox< no role >
Thomas Greggs< no role > , William Hager, Robert Dunn< no role > , James Blaker< no role > , Joseph Ashby< no role > , Edward Dale< no role >
John Thompson< no role > and Benjamin Sally< 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 David Anderson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their oath, say, That the said David Anderson< no role > an the Twenty seventh Day
of November in the Year aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from a Boat into
The River Thames and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned, Of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said David Anderson< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said David Andrews< 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 Thomas Snook< 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
Thos Snook [mark] Foreman