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 Nineteenth 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 man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Donald Mc Donald< no role > , Benjamin Castledon< no role > , James Tyrrell< no role > , John Maltin< no role > , Thomas Heath< no role >
Thomas Witimore< no role > , John Page< no role > , John Green< no role > , John Horse, Robert Oldershaw< no role > , John Read< no role >
Thomas Birdseye< no role > and James Birdseye< 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 Seventeenth Day
of August in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the New River
near a Place called the Two Sisters 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 Donald Mac Donald
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
Donl Mac Donald [mark] Foreman