MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the nineteenth 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 > Esquire
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
George Neall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Eames< no role > Thomas Coe< no role > William Veasey< no role > John Meeres< no role > Richard Nurse Joseph< no role >
Meers Richard Moore< no role > George Creighton< no role > Phillip Low Peter Ridland Joseph
Hare and Thomas Driver< 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 George Neale< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Neale< no role > on the Twenty seventh Day
of December in the Year aforesaid being a Mariner on Board a Boat called a Gravesend
Boat then Sailing upon The River Thames near to a Place called Lady Parsons's Stairs
in the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County aforesaid It so happened That He
the said George Neale< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the
River aforesaid And was in the waters thereof then and there suffocate and drowned Of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said George Neale< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do That the said George Neale< no role > in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune come to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Eames< no role >
the Foreman of the 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. Eames [mark] Foreman