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
John Hutchinson< no role > Barwick then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Baker< no role > , Robert George< no role > , William Elliot< no role > , William Taylor< no role > , Thomas Pickup< no role >
Robert Warner< no role > , Charles Glynes< no role > , Benjamin Robinson< no role > , William Russell< no role > , Samuel Clark< no role > ,
Henry Wilkins< no role > Frances Murden< no role > , and George Creighton< 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 John Hutchinson< no role > Barwick came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Hutchinson< no role > Barwick on the Twelfth,
Day of May in the year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Seven years or thereabouts
And being at play upon a Lighter to the Jurors aforesaid unknown then lying in the River Thames at King
James's Stairs in the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County aforesaid It so happened
That he the said John Hutchinson< no role > Barwick then and there accidentally casually and
by Misfortune fell into The River aforesaid And was in the waters thereof then and there
suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Hutchinson< no role >
Berwick then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said John Hutchinson< no role > [..] and by the Suffocation aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Baker< 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
Richard Baker< no role > [mark] Foreman