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 Eighth Day of April in the Twenty second 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 Galloway< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas James< no role > , Thomas Cannon< no role > , Mile Dudley< no role > , Charles Melling< no role > , William Walter< no role >
James Thatcher< no role > , John Clark< no role > , Charles Woodward< no role > , Christian Awe< no role > , Robert Blades< no role > , Richard
Harris, Thomas Kelly< no role > and James Jameson< 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 Galloway< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Galloway< no role > on the second Day
of April in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually any by Misfortune fell from a
certain Ship called Presidence Increase then lying on the River Thames near
King James's Stairs [..] and County aforesaid into the said River a [..]
was in the Waters [..] there suffocated and drowned Of which [..]
Suffocation and [..] William Galloway< no role > then and there [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas James< 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. James [mark] Foreman