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 Fifth Day of July 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 Farmer< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Rowed< no role > , Edward Evans< no role > , Thomas Measure, Robert Blades< no role > , Thomas Overton< no role > , Charles
Melin, Christian Awe< no role > , Frederick Miller< no role > , Charles Foulkes< no role > , Thomas Cannon< no role > , William
Willis and Patrick Mordaunt< 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 Farmer< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said William Farmer< no role > on the Second Day
of July in the Year aforesaid having gone into the River Thames at New Crane in the
Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bathe himself It so happened That accidentally, casually and by
Misfortune he the said William Farmer< no role > was in the Waters of the said River then and
there Suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
William Farmer< no role > [..] and so th [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Rowed
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

Wm Rowed [mark] Foreman