Middlesex
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish of Saint Mary
Islington in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth Day of Decr. inthe 23d 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 Coroner s of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of a Man unknown
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Thomas Ludgate Samuel
Tippett< no role > , John Ricklington< no role > Thomas Palmer< no role > , Edward Dodkins< no role > , Francis Austin< no role >
John Davis< no role > John Reynolds< no role > Edward Taylor< no role > , Thomas Whittimore< no role > , William
Reed and John Small< no role >
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 man unknown
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said man unknown
on the Sixteenth Day of December in the year aforesaid was found drowned
and suffocated in the New River But how or by what means he became drowned
and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Ludgate 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. UmfrevilleCoronr.

Thomas Ludgate< no role > Foreman