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 Eleventh Day of June 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
Thomas Burdon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Wardill< no role > , Richard Seipton< no role > , Edward Barkley< no role > , Thomas Barkley, Daniel
Crowhurst, Thomas James< no role > , Caleb Carter< no role > , Christian Awe, Lawrance Sinclair< no role > , Richard
Myers< no role > , Robert Maberly< no role > , Thomas Bullard< no role > , Samuel Buckley< no role > , John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. and John
Mason
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 Thomas Burdon< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Burdon< no role > on the Eleventh Day of
June in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
near Ratcliff Cross in the Hamlet of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney
in The County aforesaid. That the said Thomas Burdon< no role > had not any Marks of Violence
appearing about him And 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 Richard Wardill< 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
Richd Wardill [mark] Foreman