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 first Day of
April in the Twenty third 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > One of the Coroners 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 Edward Bartington< no role > John Maddocks< no role > , Joseph
Ridgway< no role > , Thomas Gallop< no role > , John How< no role > , James Collins< no role > , Isaac Taylor< no role > , Thomas
Whitmore, Thomas Price< no role > , Robert Fifield< no role > , Adam Windlow< no role > , John Morkin< no role >
Conrad Loyer, Thomas Evans< no role > and John Matthew< no role > good and lawfull 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 saidWilliam [..] Man unknown came to his Death Do upon their Oath
Say That the said Man unknown on the Thirty first Day of March in the
year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the New River in the Parish
and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown 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 Edward Bartington 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

E:Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Edward Bartington< no role > [mark] Foreman