MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary Islington in the County of
Middlesex , the Twelfth Day of August 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 Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Trest< no role > , John Coghsbrooke< no role > , Joseph Cross< no role > , John Bary, Joseph Houghland, Benjamin
Castledon< no role > , Samuel Austin< no role > , Richard Garrard< no role > , Oliver Dixie< no role > Samuel Cope< no role > , Benjamin Dudley< no role >
and John Lee< 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 Woman unknown came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Woman unknown accidentally casually
and by Misfortune fell into The New River at Hopping Lane Bridge near Cannonbury
House in the Parish and County aforesaid and was in the Wakes thereof then and there
suffocated and drowned, Of which said Sufocation and Drowning she the said Woman
unknown then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
say That the said Woman unknown 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 John Frost< 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 Frost< no role > [mark] Foreman