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 third 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
Thomas Lindoe< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Brekell< no role > , John Long< no role > , William Hobbs< no role > , Henry Long< no role > , James Harris< no role > , John Keates< no role >
Nathaniel Aylmer< no role > , John Blake< no role > , Richard Billingsley< no role > , William Shelton< no role > , William
Seymour< no role > and Solomon Wine< 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 Thomas Lindoe< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Lindoe< no role > being an Infant
of the Age of Thirteen years or thereabouts and being swinging with his Head in a
Piece of Spin yarn fixed to another Piece of the same Spun Yarn across a certain
Sail Loft belonging to Olley Simerson< no role > of the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and
County aforesaid but not with an Intent to hang or strangle himself It so
happened [..] said Thomas Lindoe< no role > [..] Spun Yarn
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Brekell< 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 Brekell [mark] Foreman