MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwell in the Parish of Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighteenth 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 unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Obadiah Woodcock< no role > John Hart< no role > , Richard Ashley< no role > , Eve Lever< no role > , John Stanley< no role > ,
William Lavers< no role > , James Reader< no role > , George Atkins< no role > , Edward Cockle< no role > , George
Jones, James Smith< no role > , Samuel Ewen< no role > , and John Wheat< 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 Seventeenth
Day of May in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
at Blackwall Yard in The Hamlet aforesaid 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 Obadiah Woodcock< 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
Obadiah Woodcock< no role > [mark] Foreman