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 Seventeenth Day of December in the twenty Second 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 unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Coe< no role > James Meers< no role > Cuthbert Hayes< no role > George Hardy< no role > James Randall< no role > John Meers< no role > John
Bryant John Wakefield< no role > William Anson< no role > George Bowyer< no role > John Hibbon< no role > James Artest and
Kidman Dominy< 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 thirteenth day of December
in the Year aforesaid was Found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at Wapping new Stairs in
the [..] aforesaid that the said Boy unknown has not [..] of Violence appearing
[..] how or by what means he became drowned and su [..] Evidence doth appear to
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Coe< 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

Thos Coe [mark] Foreman< no role >