MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Enfield in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixteenth Day of April in the Twenty Fifth 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
Edward Jones< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Walter Pyefinch< no role > , Henry Clark< no role > , John Smith< no role > , William Smith< no role > , George Adams< no role > , Francis
Darby, Richard Smith< no role > , Benjamin Brinkley< no role > , John Gregory< no role > , Thomas Barriff, John Willes< no role >
William Else Dutton Greenwood< no role > the Younger Joseph Hodges< no role > and Mathew Cook< 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 Edward Jones< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Edward Jones< no role > on the Eleventh Day of
April in the Year aforesaid having gone into the River Lee [..] for the Purpose of
Swimming It so happened that accidentally, casually and by Misfortune he the said
Edward Jones< no role > was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Edward Jones< no role > then and there died
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Edward
Jones 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 Walter Pyefinch< 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

Walter Pyefinch [mark] Foreman