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 Fourth Day of February 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
James White< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Ralph Hodney Lawrance Sinclair Edward Barkley William Shooner George Saylor< no role >
John Harris< no role > John Leplaistrien, James Mason< no role > George Hunter< no role > William Wilkins< no role >
Christian Awe< no role > Thomas Means< no role > and Thomas Arnold< 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 James White< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said James White< no role > on the second Day of February in
the Year aforesaid being in an open Bart on the River Thames near the second Mill on the
Mill Wall in The Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwell in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney
in the County aforesaid It so happened That he the said James White< no role > then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell in the River aforesaid And was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he
the said James White< no role > then and there died And so the Jurosrs aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said James White< 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 James White< 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
Ralph Hodney [mark] Foreman