MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint John at Hackney 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
Ann Smith< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Field< no role > , Samuel Millwood< no role > , John Bickerstaff< no role > , Thomas Adaman< no role > , Joseph Mulley< no role > ,
William Cotsford< no role > , Zachariah James< no role > , William Nutting< no role > , William Payne< no role > This name instance is in set 2582. , John Wake< no role > [..]
William Fieldwick< no role > , William Young< no role > , John Happell< no role > , Charles Ashby< no role > , Thomas Cuthbert< no role >
John Turnbull< no role > , William Thomas< no role > , Richard Snewin< no role > , Thomas Nightingale< no role > and William
Plant
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 Ann Smith< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Ann Smith< no role > on the Sixteenth Day
of July in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the age of Twelve years or thereabouts
And being in an open Boat on The River Lee Attempting to Ferryingherself over the said River
It so happened That she the said Ann Smith< no role > then and there accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune fell from the Boat aforesaid into the said River And was in the Waters thereof then and there
suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Ann Smith< no role >
then and there Died And with Jurors [..] aforesaid [..] That
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Field< 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. Field [mark] Foreman