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 Fourteenth 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
William Wallace< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Smith< no role > , Thomas Coe< no role > , Joseph Meers< no role > , Griffin Boardman< no role > , John Meers< no role > , Richard
Nurse, George Pearce< no role > , John Hebron< no role > , Mason Lisk< no role > , John Bell< no role > , John Knox< no role > and William
Harris
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 William Wallace< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Wallace< no role > on the Eleventh Day of June
in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Ten Years or thereabouts accidentally casually
and by Misfortune fell [..] into the River Thames at Gun Dock in the Parish and County
aforesaid And was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned
Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Wallace< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William
Wallace [..] Understanding made Lunatic and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaiddidAccidentally, casually and by Misfortune
came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Smith< 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
William Smith [mark] Foreman