MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Matthew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty 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
John Scriber then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Merceron< no role > , James Hanshaw< no role > , John Huckley< no role > , Evan Barnes< no role > , William Colson< no role > , James
Shakeshaft, James Corbett< no role > , Nicholas Duke< no role > , Francis Greenwood< no role > , John Andrew< no role > , Peter Mouzon< no role >
Robert Buttery< no role > , John Rollonge< no role > , Richard Beales< no role > , Thomas Baker< no role > , James Ely, Bartholomew< no role >
Butterworth, Peter Bredell< no role > , and Samuel Bouvier< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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 John Scriber came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Scriber on the Twenty Second
Day of July in the Year aforesaid having gone into a Gravel Pit of Water Scituate in Mr Prichards
Field in the Parish and County aforesaid in Order to Bathe himself It so happened
That accidentally, casually and by Misfortune he the said John Scriber was in
the Waters of the said Gravel Pit then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which
said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Scriber then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid when the Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Scriber in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Merceron< 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

John Merceron [mark] Foreman