MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The
Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth Day of November 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
Joseph Stokall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Christian Awe< no role > , Samuel Kerridge< no role > Thomas Cannon< no role > Mark Mc Daniel Samuel
Palston Robert Grieg, Matthew Harkey< no role > William Benson< no role > Charles Mellon Thomas
Simpson William Booth< no role > , Richard Batley< no role > and Thomas Measure
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 Joseph Stokell< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Joseph Stokell< no role > on the Thirteenth Day of
November in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at Shadwell Dock Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid That the
said Joseph Stokell< no role > 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 Christian Awe< 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
Christian Awe [mark] Foreman