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 Eighth Day of October in the Twenty third 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
Robert Brooks< no role > William Farmer< no role > , John Holliday< no role > , John Drewmille< no role > , Edward Cackle< no role >
William Dabbs< no role > , William Cole< no role > John Porter< no role > Peter Scott< no role > , Obadiah Reeve Richard
Ashley and Thomas Carpenter< 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 fifth
Day of October 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 because drowned and suffocated
no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Brooks< 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
Robert Brooks< no role > [mark] Foreman