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 Eighth Day of July in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, 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 Stevens< no role > , John Davis< no role > , George Atkins< no role > , Richard Sims< no role > , Obadiah Woodcock< no role > , John
Finch, William Randall< no role > , Edward Poulton< no role > . Thomas Giddins< no role > , Samuel Stevens< no role > , John Hagan< no role >
and John Shinglar
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 fifth Day of July
in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames near
Mr Todd's Mast House 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 Stevens< 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 Stevens< no role > [mark] Foreman