MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighth Day of January 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
John Ford< no role > , Thomas Moore< no role > John Mansell< no role > John Hooper< no role > William Hobbs< no role >
John Passey< no role > John Leman< no role > Richard Anderson< no role > Daniel Christie< no role > William
Shelton< no role > David Brand< no role > and Nathaniel Ayland< 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 Sixth Day of
January in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at Stone Stairs in The Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid
But 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 John Ford< 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

John Ford< no role > [mark] Foreman