MIDDLESEX
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(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 twenty eighth 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
James Dennis< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Bluck< no role >
,
Robert Edwards< no role >
,
James Randall< no role >
,
James French< no role >
,
James Cowell< no role >
,
John Reading< no role >
,
Robert Pilgrim< no role >
,
Robert Warner< no role >
,
Joseph Murel< no role >
Thomas Lee< no role >
,
Benjamin Robinson< no role >
,
George Creighton< no role >
,
William Couling< no role >
,
Gaulway Evans< no role >
,
George Bowyer< no role >
, and
William Veasey< 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
James Dennis< no role >
came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
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on the Twenty Eighth Day
of May in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
at
Wapping Old Stairs
in The Parish and County aforesaid That the said
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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 Bluck< 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 Bluck< no role >
[mark] Foreman