MIDDLESEX .
(To. wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the First Day of October 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
Thomas Glossop< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Dodd< no role > , Samuel Blore< no role > Samuel Knightly< no role > William Wand John Smith< no role > Thomas Gibson< no role > , John
Harris Thomas Metcalf< no role > , Jasher Duncan< no role > , William Hatton< no role > , John Richardson< no role > and Robert Bendall< 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 Thomas Glossop< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Glossop< no role > on the Twenty ninth
Day of September in the year aforesaid being intoxicated with strong Liquor
accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into The River Thames at Parsons
Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there
suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
Thomas Glossop< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Thomas Glossop< 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 William Dodd< 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

William Dodd< no role > [mark] [..] Foreman