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 Sixteenth 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
A Man unknow then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Elliott< no role > , Richard Baker< no role > , Robert George< no role > , William Taylor< no role > , Thomas Pickup< no role > ,
Robert Warner< no role > , Charles Glyms< no role > , Benjamin Robinson< no role > , John Clear< no role > , William Russell< no role > ,
Samuel Clark< no role > , Robert Donaldson< no role > , Henry Wilkins< no role > , and Francis Murden< 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 Fourteenth Day
of May in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at
Hermitage Stairs 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 suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Elliott< 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

Wm Elliott [mark] Foreman