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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of [..]
in the County of Middlesex , the Twety sixth Day of [..] 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 one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Robert Burk< no role > an Infant
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Scarlett< no role >
John Makie< no role > , Isaac Morris< no role > , William Allen< no role > , William Stevens< no role > , Edward Cox< no role > , Henry
Day, Edward Fox< no role > , William Wrench< no role > , Richard Jethwell< no role > , Richard Dorise< no role > and John
Jones

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 Robert Burk< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert
Burk being an Infant of the Age of Nine Years on thereabouts on the
Twenty fourth Day of April in the Year aforesaid being playing on a
Parcell of Logs floating on the River Thames in the Parish and County
aforesaid It so happened that he the said Robert Burk< no role > then and there
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River
And was in the waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned
Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Robert Burk< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Robert Burk< 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 Thomas Scarlett< 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.

Thos Scarlett [mark] Foreman