MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stebun heath otherwise Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the First Day of May 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
John Ware< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Pewsey< no role > , John Williams< no role > , James Larkin< no role > , James Thornton< no role > , Richard Newcomb< no role >
William Hillman< no role > , Thomas Carpenter< no role > , John Blake< no role > , William Shelton< no role > , John Williams< no role >
William Wilson< no role > , Robert Dewsberry< no role > , Joseph Stanton< no role > , John Henfree, Peter Smith< no role > , Thomas Scoffin< no role >
William Cardinal< no role > , William Baley< no role > and John Wake< 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 John Ware< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That on the Twenty Eighth Day of April in the year,
aforesaid at The Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid the said John Ware< no role >
being on the Quarter Deck of a Ship then Building in Blackwall [..] yard then called or intended to be
called by the Name of the Bombay castle and That James King< no role > late of the said Hamlet of
Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Ship Joiner in
and upon the said John Ware< no role > in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King then and
there being feloniously [..] at the said James King< no role > with his
[..] Side [..]
[..]
[..] last and throw to a [..]
beating aforesaid then and there give [..] in the said John Ware< no role > diver a mortal Bruises
in and upon the said Head, Breast, Belly and Sides of him the said John Ware< no role > of which
said Mortal Bruises he the said John Ware< no role > instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said James King< no role > him the said John Ware< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid feloniously did kill and Slay against the Peace
of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Powsey< 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

John Powsey [mark] Foreman