MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth Day of August in the Twenty first 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 Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Moore< no role > Thomas Clark< no role > William Fletcher< no role > Cuthbert Hayes< no role > , Joseph Moores< no role > , William Taylor< no role > , Jonathan
Chawlker, Griffin Bardman< no role > , John Bordman< no role > , George Hardy< no role > , Joseph Wilson< no role > and William Byron< 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 Man Unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown in the Fourteenth
Day of August in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The
River Thames at Execution Dock 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 Richard Moore< 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
Richd. Moore [mark] Foreman