MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fourth 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
John Daly< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Burdord< no role > William Hobbs< no role > William Seymour< no role > John Brackell< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Nathaniel
Oyliner John Blake< no role > Arthur Steavens< no role > Richard Higgins< no role > James Bannon< no role > David Brand< no role > &
Richard Jermy< 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 John Daly< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Daly< no role > on the Nineteenth Day of December
in the Year aforesaid being in an open Boat on the River Thames at Limehouse Hole in the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan
Stepney aforesaid in the County aforesaid and being Jumping from the Head to the Stern of the
said Boat if so happend that [..] and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune [..]
from the said Boat into [..] thereof then and there [..]
drowned [..] then and [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Burdord< 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

Robert Burdord [mark] Foreman