MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth Day of September 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
Thomas Gagen Thomas Willis< no role > Martin Erhart< no role > Benjamin Dutton< no role > Richard Ashley< no role >
John Chiswick Edward Cockle< no role > William Gascoigne< no role > William Dobbs< no role > John Drewmilk< no role >
John Porter< no role > and Josiah Stone< 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 ninth
Day of September in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the
River Thames at Mr Grays Mill on the Marsh Wall 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 Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Gagen
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

Thomas Gagen [mark] Foreman