MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Ratcliffe in the [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty First Day of [..] in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE, the Lord 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 Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Seymour< no role > , John Blake< no role > , Arthur Steavens< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , James Harris< no role > Nathaniel Aylmer, Richard
Wheeler, Edward King< no role > , Gabriel Hone< no role > , Thomas Passey< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Newton< no role > and John Mansell< 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 Twentieth Day
of September in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at Ratcliff Cross in the Hamlet aforesaid in 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 William Seymour< 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

Wm. Seymour [mark] Foreman