MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth 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 Frazer< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Jeremiah Blakeman< no role > , John Wicker< no role > , William Syer< no role > , John Englebeck William
Saffin, Richard Wicker< no role > , William Hall< no role > , William Wheatley< no role > Thomas
Williamson, Charles Young< no role > , Robert Downberry< no role > and Peter Brown< 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 Frazer< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That on the Twenty Eighth Day of May in the Year
aforesaid One John Hawkins< no role > being driving a Dray drawn by Two Horses in The Kings
Highway at The Corner of Ropemakers Fields in the Parish and County aforesaid And the
said John Frazer< no role > being an Infant of the age of Four Years or thereabouts And being
standing against a Post there It so happened That the near wheel of the said Dray
then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune [..] Forced the Head of the said John
Frazer against the said Post By Means whereof he the said John Frazer< no role > then and there
received divers Mortal Bruises in and upon the said Head of him the said John Frazer< no role > of
which said Mortal Bruises he the said John Frazer< no role > then and there instantly died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon these oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Frazer< no role > in manner
and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his Death
And That the said Near Wheel was the cause of the Death of the said John Frazer< no role > and is
of the value of Five Shillings and the Property and in the Possession of Thomas Drane< no role >
of the said Parish and County Brewer or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jeremiah Blakeman< 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
Jerh Blakeman [mark] Foreman