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 sixth 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, in View of the Body of
a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James James< no role > , Thomas Moore< no role > , John Mansell< no role > , George Wilson< no role > , John King< no role > , John
Newton, William Shelton< no role > , Banyard Gotobed< no role > , John Brockell< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > ,
Nathaniel Aylmer< no role > , and Thomas Fuller< 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 Second Day of
February in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames near Ship Alley 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 be became drowned and suffocated no Evidence
doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James James< 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 > Coroner

Jas James [mark] Foreman