MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth 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
a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Taylor< no role > , Richard Smith< no role > , Obadiah Woodcock< no role > , John Alexander< no role > , Abraham Praul< no role >
Joseph Murgitroyd< no role > , Thomas Wright< no role > , Edward Cockle< no role > , Joseph Higgins< no role > , John Shinglar
Solomon Bowsey< no role > , Henry Freeman< no role > , Francis Godench< no role > , Leve Lever, Dorphas Hill< no role > and William Emerson< 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 Thirteenth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
near the first Mill at Limehouse Hole 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 he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence
doth appear to the said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Taylor< 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. Phillip< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Taylor< no role > [mark] Foreman