MIDDLESEX
.
(To wit.)}
AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell
in the County of
Middlesex
, the fourth Day of June 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
Sampson Marriott< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Thatcher< no role >
,
Thomas Street< no role >
,
Miles Dudley< no role >
,
William Benson< no role >
,
Charles Mallen< no role >
,
Richard Harris< no role >
,
John Bell< no role >
,
Christian Awe< no role >
,
Edward Bradshaw< no role >
, John Pownceby,
George Campion< no role >
and
Frederick Miller< 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
Sampson Marriott< no role >
came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
Sampson Marriott< no role >
on the second Day
of June in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
at
King James's Stairs
in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said
Sampson Marriott< no role >
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
James Thatcher< 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
James Thatcher< no role >
[mark] Foreman