Middlesex
To wit.
{
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of
[..]
in the County of Middlesex
, the twelfth Day of August in the 22d. 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, Etc. before
Edward Umfreville< no role >
one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
John Tomkins< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of
Stephen Boult< no role >
Thomas
Mills< no role >
William Row< no role >
John Maddocks< no role >
George Dexter< no role >
James Wheeler< no role >
Thomas Hale< no role >
Richard Baggridge< no role >
John Stevens< no role >
Castile Stephens< no role >
Joseph Tille< no role >
James Parker< no role >
Thomas Johnston< no role >
John Will att
Richard
Butler< no role >
John F [..]
William Bringest< no role >
Thomas White< no role >
and William
Berryman
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said
John Tomkins< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said
John Tomkins< no role >
on the Ninth Day of August in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually
and by misfortune fell into The River Thames
in the Parish and County aforesaid
and was in the waters thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
John Tomkins< no role >
then and there Died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John
Tomkins 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 Stephen Boult< no role >
the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned
E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.
Stepn Boult [mark] Foreman