MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the First Day of April 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
Thomas Garrett< no role > , John Harper< no role > , Simon Golding< no role > , Walter Waters< no role > , David Conling, John Carter< no role >
John Handley< no role > , George Stone< no role > , John Haynes< no role > , George Frost< no role > , Richard Hankes< no role > and Thomas
Myers
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 Thirty first Day
of March in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames
near the Second Mill on Blackwall in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and
County aforesaid But how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated no
Evidence doth appear to the said [..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Garrett< 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

Thomas Garrett< no role > [mark] Foreman