MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Catherine in the County of
Middlesex , the Eleventh 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
Stephen Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Simon Jackson< no role > , Frederick Rowland< no role > , James Randall< no role > , William Hall< no role > , Jacob Cook< no role > ,
Jethro Weatherstone< no role > This name instance is in set 2817. , Thomas Spooner< no role > , George Elliott< no role > , William Davies< no role > , John
Russ, Thomas Hamilton< no role > and William Newport< 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 Stephen Smith< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Stephen Smith< no role > on the Eighth Day of
May in the year aforesaid being intoxicated with strong Liquor and being endeavouring to go
on Board a Ship called the Gainsborough then lying on the River Thames at Messidets
wharf in the Precinct and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said Stephen
Smith then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell from the said Wharf
into the River aforesaid And was in the waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning He the said Stephen Smith< no role > then and there
Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Stephen
Smith in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune Came
to be Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Simon Jackson< 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

Simon Jackson< no role > [mark] Foreman