MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Precinct
of Saint Catherine 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
Griffith Griffiths< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Hackworth< no role > , John Bennett< no role > , William Hall< no role > , Jethre Weather stone, Philip Bendernough< no role >
Isaac Ellard< no role > , William King< no role > [..] Francis King< no role > , James Randall< no role > , William
Davis, Jacob Cook< no role > and Joshua Nunn< 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 Griffith Griffiths< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Griffith Griffiths< no role > on the seventh Day
of August in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the River Thames It so happened
That he the said Griffith Griffiths< no role > then and there accidentally casually and by Misfortune
fell from the said Boat into the River aforesaid And was in the Waters thereof then and
there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Griffith
Griffiths then< no role > and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Griffith Griffiths< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Hackworth< 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 Hackworth [mark] Foreman