MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Luke Chelsea in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighth 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
John Small< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Simpkin< no role > , William Abbott< no role > , John Waters< no role > , John Gardner< no role > , John Gregory< no role > , Thomas
Long, William Burris< no role > , William Downes< no role > , Charles Chapman< no role > , William Tanner< no role > , Ellis
Chittock, William Jackson< no role > , Edward Downes< no role > and Thomas Surr< 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 Small< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Small< no role > on the seventh Day of July
in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune fell into The River
Thames at the Bottom of Hog Lane in the Parish and County aforesaid and was in
the Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned. Of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said John Small< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Small< 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 Thomas Simpkin< 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

Thos. Simpkin [mark] Foreman