MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth Day of [..] in the Twenty [..] Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, 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 Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Keckwith Benjamin Wood< no role > Alexander Lewington< no role > Richard Gascoigne Benjamin Catt Thomas
Columbine William Edwards< no role > James Ireland< no role > , John Falkener< no role > , Joseph Forster< no role > William Abington< no role > John Kellon< no role >
and Richard Reed< 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 Unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Boy unKnown on the second Day of
July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocation The River Thames at
Dukes Shorein the Parish and County aforesaid, That the said Boy 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 Peter Kockwith< no role >
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.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner