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 Twenty third Day of October 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 Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Charles Hooper< no role > , Daniel Willis< no role > , Robert Morgan< no role > , William Randall< no role > , Thomas Barrett< no role >
William Bedford< no role > , Samuel Ewen< no role > James Thornton< no role > , William Jenkin< no role > John Jelks John
Finch and John Porter< 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 Boy unknown came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Boy unknown on the Twenty second
Day of October in the year aforesaid was found Drowned and suffocated in The
River Thames in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Boy unknown
had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him And how or by what means
he became Drowned and suffocated he Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Charles Hooper< 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
Chas Hooper [mark] Foreman