MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the first Day of May 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
Sampson Holmes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Gray< no role > , John Allen< no role > , William Cockshott< no role > , William Elliott< no role > , Edmond Perkins< no role >
Benjamin Robinson< no role > , William Taylor< no role > , Thomas Coe< no role > , Moses Sudgrove< no role > , Henry
Pratt< no role > , George Creighton< no role > , and William Russell< 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 Sampson Holmes< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Sampson Holmes< no role > on the Twenty seventh
Day of April in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thomas at Wapping Old Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Sampson Holmes< no role > had not any Marks of
Violence appearing about him And how or by what means 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 Gray< 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 Gray< no role > [mark] Foreman