MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Black Wall in the parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty seventh 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Robinson< no role > , William Bedford< no role > , Thomas Barrett< no role > , John Finch< no role > , John Porter< no role > ,
William Randall< no role > , John Hager< no role > , James Thornton< no role > , John Jerry< no role > , Thomas Willis< no role > , Samuel
Ewen< no role > , John Worrall< no role > , and William Jenkins< 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown on the Twenty fourth
Day of August in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at Limehouse Hole in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid
That the said Man 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 Joseph & Robinson< 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

The Mark [mark] of
Joseph Robinson< no role > [mark] Foreman