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 Twentieth 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
a man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Smith< no role > , Griffin Boardman< no role > , Joseph Meers< no role > , Richard Nurse, Richard Moore< no role >
Benjamin Robinson< no role > , Thomas Coe< no role > , Robert Leighton< no role > , John Cocker< no role > , Mark Snellgrove< no role > , John
Smart and Valentine Millington< 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said man unknown on the Eighteenth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated at the Hermitage Stairs in the
Parish and County aforesaid. That the said man 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 William Smith< 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
William Smith [mark] Foreman