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 twelfth 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 Alexander Bellows< no role > then and there lying dead upon the Oath of
Robert Warner< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Griffin Beardman< no role > , Thomas Hunter< no role > , John Meers< no role >
Joseph Hare< no role > , Richard Nurse, James Gregory< no role > , Robert Leighton< no role > , John Yeates< no role > , George
Creighton, William Chapman< no role > and James Randle good and lawfull 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 Alexander Bellows< no role > came to his
Death Do upon their Oath say That the said Alexander Bellows< no role > on the tenth Day
of July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the Rivers Names at Wapping Dock
in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said Alexander Bellows< no role > 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 Robert Warner< no role > the
Foreman of the said Jurors on 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 abovewritten

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Robt Warner [mark] Foreman