MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunston Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the first Day of January 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 Bryan< no role > Gabriel Howe< no role > Richard Motley< no role > William Seymour< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Thomas
Moore James Harrison< no role > George Odell< no role > Thomas Pacey< no role > Samuel Angley< no role > John Mansell< no role > and
John Hooper< 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 Thirtieth Day
of December in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thame [..] at Stone Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid
Tha [..] Boy unknown had not any Marks of Viol [..] nt him
[..] hat [..] he became dro [..] and on [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Bryan< 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.. Bryan [mark] Foreman