MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at
the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty Fifth 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
William Draper< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Jacob Farr< no role > , James Case< no role > , John Jewell, Joseph Mills< no role > , John Gray< no role > , John Gardiner< no role >
Thomas Sims< no role > , Thomas Webber< no role > , William Bowman< no role > , John Davies< no role > , Adam Household
Samuel Harper< no role > , John Armstrong< no role > , Thomas Matthews< no role > and John Adams< 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 William Draper< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Draper< no role > on the Twenty second
Day of June in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Nine years or thereabouts
and having gone into a certain Gravel Pit of Water situate in Scotts Field at Hoxton in
the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in The County aforesaid to Bathe himself It so happened That he
the said William Draper< no role > accidentally casually and by Misfortune was in the Waters
of the said Gravel Pit of water and the Suffocated and Drowned of which said of suffocation
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jacob Farr< 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

Jacob Farr [mark] Foreman