MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITON indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighteenth 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
Isabella Bell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Samuel Knightly< no role > , Thomas Gibson< no role > , John Martin< no role > , Jonathan Collins< no role > , James Cocham< no role >
Thomas Oborne< no role > , Thomas Pinkarton< no role > , Francis White< no role > , George Ashton< no role > , Thomas Toeling< no role >
William Oliver< no role > and Thomas Chorley< 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 Isabella Bell< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Isabella Bell< no role > on the seventeenth Day
of July in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the River Thames which said Boat
was then sailing towards London It so happened That [..] accidentally and by Misfortune the said Boat then
and there [..] leave suddenly Overset by means whereof She the said
Isabella Bell< no role > was in the Waters of the said River Then and there
Suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
She the said Isabella Bell< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do Say that the said Isabella Bell< no role >
in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune Came to her Death
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Knightly< 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
Saml Knightly< no role > [mark] Foreman