Middlesex
to wit.{
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Harmondsworth
in the County of Middlesex
, the Sixteenth Day of January in the 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 Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of
Thomas Mercy< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Weekly< no role >
Daniel Tomkins< no role >
Mathew East< no role >
,
Henry Tillier< no role >
,
Thomas Jarvis< no role >
John Bedford< no role >
John Heath< no role >
,
William Haymes< no role >
,
Philip Tillier< no role >
,
William Blunt< no role >
, William
Harber,
George Fosset< no role >
and
Edward Tront< 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
Thomas Mercy< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas
Mercy on the fourteenth Day of January in the year aforesaid was found
Drowned and suffocated in a Gravel Pit of Water in the Parish and County
aforesaid That the said
Thomas Mercy< no role >
had not any Marks of Violence
appearing about him And how or by what means he became drowned
and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors
In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Weekly 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.
Thos. Weekly [mark] Foreman