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 Nineteenth 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
a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Elliott< no role >
,
James French< no role >
,
James Randall< no role >
,
Joseph Meeres< no role >
,
John Meeres< no role >
,
Griffin Boardman< no role >
,
Cuthbert Hays< no role >
,
William Taylor< no role >
,
Thomas Cox< no role >
,
Benjamin
Robinson< no role >
,
William Vezey< no role >
,
George Creighton< no role >
, and
Peter Simpson< 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 Thirteenth Day
of July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
near the Tower
of LondonThat 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 doth appear to the said Jurors
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
William Elliott< 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
Wm Elliott [mark] Foreman