Middlesex
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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Dwelling House ofBurt
known by the Sign of the Fox in Fox Court Southampton Row in the Parish of Saint George Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex the Eighth
Day of July in the Twenty sixth 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 Thomas Phillips< no role > one of the Coroners of our
said Lord the King for the said County on View of the Body of A Boy Unknownthen and there lying Dead upon the
Oath of Thomas Tibbs< no role > Thomas Cope< no role > James Roach< no role > Ralph Shephard, John Cordish. George Mersey< no role > Thomas Kendall< no role > John Coleman< no role >
William Barham< no role > Daniel Mawley< no role > David Redett, John Hyde< no role > , John Harrison< no role > , John Fuller< no role > . James Dunford< no role > and Edward Briggs< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly Chosen and who being then and there duly sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord
the King when how and by what means the said Boy UnknownCame to his Death do upon their Oath
say That the said Boy to the Jurors aforesaid as yet Unknown on the Sixth day of July on the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid
in the County aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into a Certain Pond of Water being in a Certain Field Called the
Long Field there Situate and in the said Waters thereof was then and there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said Boy to the Jurors aforesaid as yet Unknown then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid de say that the said Boy to the Jurors aforesaid as yet Unknown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death and not otherwise to the Knowledge of the said Jurors.

In Witness Whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Tibbs< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on the Behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellow in their Presence have to this Inquisition at their Hands and
Seals the Day Year and Place first above Written.

Thos. Tibbs< no role > [mark]