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 fourth Day of July 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
William Smith< no role > , William Vesey< no role > , Thomas Cox< no role > James French< no role > , Richard Nurse, Joseph
Meers, John Knox< no role > , Joseph Hare< no role > , Jacob Owen< no role > , John Meers< no role > , William Berryman< no role >
and mason Lisk
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 Twenty Eighth Day
of June in the Year aforesaid being bathing in the River Thames in the Parish and
County aforesaid It so happened That accidentally casually and by Misfortune he
the said Boy unknown was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated
and drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Boy unknown then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Boy unknown 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 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< no role >