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 Thirty 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 Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Leming< no role > Joseph Seacome< no role > , Henry Long< no role > , William Appleford< no role > , William Seymour< no role >
Richard Blundell< no role > , William Papoll, William Nicholls< no role > , Thomas Passey< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , William
Read, David Brand< no role > and Thomas Smith< 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Man unknown on the Twenty Ninth
Day of January in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the
River Thames Stone Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County
aforesaid But how or by what [..] he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence
doth appear to the said Jurors [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Leeming< 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

John Leeming [mark] Foreman