MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the precinct
of Saint Catherine in the County of
Middlesex , the fourth Day of June 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 Morley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
George Dowar< no role > , James Gallaugher< no role > , Alexander Barton< no role > , James Anderson< no role > ,
John Storme< no role > , Christian Sils< no role > , Alexander Callam< no role > , James Bishop< no role > , James
Randall< no role > , William Stall< no role > , Andrew Titmar< no role > , Thomas Weatherley< no role > , John Russ< no role > ,
and William Dickinson< 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 Morley< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Morley< no role > on the Twenty fourth
Day of May in the Year aforesaid being a Servant on Board a Ship called The London
then lying in The River Thames near The Tower of London And being endeavouring to go from the Quarter of the said
Ship into The Boat belonging to the same It so happened That he the said William
Morley then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune fell 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 William Morley< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do Say That the said William Morley< 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 George Dewar< 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
George Dewar [mark] Foreman