MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney 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 , 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
John Sykes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Brookes< no role > , John Fryer< no role > , John Smith< no role > , John Woodroff< no role > , Henry Long< no role > , Thomas Bryant< no role >
John Leming< no role > , John Fairfax< no role > , John Bickell< no role > , John Herbert< no role > , Edward Swanston< no role > , Edward Pont
and Edward Cooke< 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 John Sykes< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Sykes< no role > on the Twenty ninth Day of
June in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the River Thames near Stone
Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he
the said John Sykes< no role > then and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into
the said River And was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of
which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Sykes< no role > then and there died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Sykes< 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 Brookes< 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

John Brookes< no role > [mark] Foreman