MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Leonard Bromley in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of August 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
Francis Skeel< no role > the Younger then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
George Jupp< no role > , Randall Lawrence< no role > , John Killingbeck< no role > , John Clapham< no role > , William
Cardinal, John Pack< no role > , William Railey< no role > , Joseph Pennyfeather< no role > , John Downing< no role > , Daniel
Armon, Jacob Targett, James Cowell< no role > , John Williams< no role > , Henry Parnell< no role > and John
Masters,
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Francis Skeel< no role > the Younger came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Francis Skeel< no role > the Younger on the
Fourth Day of August in the Year aforesaid being Sailing in an open Boat on The
River Thames It so happened That by a sudden Gust of Wind the said Boat
over set and sunk into the River aforesaid By means whereof he the said Francis
Skeel the Younger was in the waters of the said River then and there suffocated
and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Francis Skeel< no role >
Died [..] aforesaid
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said George Jupp< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Reft of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year frist
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

George Jupp [mark] Foreman