MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint George [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the First Day of April 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 Richardson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Macords, David Coutey< no role > , Peter Cleeves< no role > , William Wilcox< no role > , Joseph Elsey< no role >
William Chambers< no role > , Thomas Squire< no role > , Thomas Bennett< no role > , Benjamin Leeirs< no role > , James
Linsell, John Johnson< no role > and Hugh Wright< 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 William Richardson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oaths, say, That the said William Richardson< no role > on the Twenty first
Day of March in the Year aforesaid being in an open Boat on the River Thames between
Woolwich and Deptford It so happened That he the said William Richardson< no role > then and there
accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said William Richardson< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William Richardson< 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 Macord< 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
Jno Macord [mark] Foreman