MIDDLESEX .
(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 sixth 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
a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Clark< no role > , James French< no role > , Cuthbert Hayes< no role > , Richard Baker< no role > , Griffin Boardman< no role >
James Randle< no role > , Joseph Meeres< no role > , John Meeres< no role > , Benjamin Robinson< no role > , Joseph Hare< no role > and
William Elliott< 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 Boy unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Boy unknown on the Twenty fifth Day of
June in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
at Wapping New Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Boy unknown
had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him and how or by what means he became
drowned and suffocated no Evidence [..] to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Clarke< 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

Thos. Clark [mark] Foreman