MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fifth 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
Mathew King< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Hillson< no role > , William Clapton< no role > , Thomas Palmer< no role > , Jasper Aspire< no role > , Edward Fletcher< no role >
Durham Sharpe< no role > , James Hanswell< no role > , John Tudor< no role > , Edward Davis< no role > , William Morrell< no role >
John Ring< no role > , Richard Rokes< no role > and Alexander Brown< 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 Mathew King< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mathew King< no role > on the Twentieth Day of
June in the year aforesaid being in a Cespool at the House ofLeak situate in
the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That the Soil of a Necessary House
near to the said Cesspool then and there suddenly rushed in upon him the said Matthew
King. By Means whereof he the said Mathew King< no role > was in the said Soil then and there
accidentally, casually and by misfortune suffocated and smothered. Of which said Suffocation
and Smothering he the said Mathew King< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Mathew King< no role > 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 John Ohlson< 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 Inquisiton, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Ohlson [mark] Foreman