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 Woman unknow then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Warner< no role >
,
Richard Baker< no role >
,
Robert George< no role >
,
William Taylor< no role >
,
Thomas Pickup< no role >
,
Charles Glynes< no role >
,
Benjamin Robinson< no role >
,
William Elliot< 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 Woman unknown came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Woman unknown on the said Sixteenth Day
of May in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and suffocated in the River Thames
at
Wapping New Stairs
in the Parish and County aforesaid But how or by what Means she
became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Warner< 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
Robt Warner [mark] Foreman