MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate
in the County of
Middlesex
, the Fifth Day of February 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
George Cunningham< no role >
,
James Wright< no role >
,
William Weatherhead< no role >
, John Wahnbeck,
Thomas
Morris< no role >
,
Charles Roberts< no role >
,
Richard Davis< no role >
,
Samuel Knightley< no role >
,
John Snockingburk< no role >
John Chambers< no role >
,
William Wild< no role >
and
Thomas Metcalfe< 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 Third Day of
January in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames
at Hawleys Wharf in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Man unknown
had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him And how or by What Means
he became drowned and suffocate doth appear to the said Jurors
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
George Cunningham< 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
Geo: Cunningham [mark] Foreman