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 twenty seventh 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
William O'Brien< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edward Staple< no role > William Ridney< no role > Cuthbert Alder< no role > William Smith< no role > George Dean< no role >
Thomas Shanks< no role > Redmund Divyne< no role > Benjamin Robinson< no role > Thomas Coe< no role > , James Powell< no role >
William Biddulph< no role > and Mark Millgrove< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged in inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said William O'Brien< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Obrien< no role > on the Thirteenth Day of
December in the Year aforesaid being Sailing in an open wherry on the River Thames in the Two the Persons
in the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in
the County aforesaid It so happened That the said Wherry then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune sunk into The River aforesaid By Means whereof he the said
William Obrien< no role > was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Obrien< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William Obrien< 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 Will Edward Staple< 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
Edward Staple< no role > [mark] Foreman