MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the
parish of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the seventeenth 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
Michael Marr< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Earnes< no role > , James Randle< no role > Thomas Coe< no role > , James Weatherhead< no role > William
Elliott< no role > Joseph Hare< no role > Richard Braker Joseph Moses< no role > John Meeres< no role > King
Wilkie Griffin Boardman William Vezay< no role > and James Berryman< 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 Michael Marr came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Michael Marr on the Fifteenth Day
of January in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Seven Years or
thereabouts accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into the River Thames
at Smiths Ways in the Parish and County aforesaid and was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said Michael Marr then and there Died and so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said Michael Marr in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune
Came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Earnes< 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

Thos: Earnes [mark] Foreman