Middlesex
,
to wit
{
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Parish of Saint Paul
Shadwell
in the County Middlesex
, the fourteenth Day of September 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, Etc. before
Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of a Boy unknown
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of
Thomas Bore< no role >
Timothy Skinner< no role >
,
David Nightingale< no role >
,
John Vertue< no role >
,
James Roberts< no role >
, John
Crowther,
James Allen< no role >
,
James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
,
James Rubidge< no role >
,
John Fletcher< no role >
Robert Manners< no role >
,
John Wilson< no role >
,
Thomas Robinson< no role >
,
Thomas Wheeler< no role >
and
Robert Maberly< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by law required and who being, then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Boy unknown
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Boy
unknown on the Twelfth Day of September in the Year aforesaid was found
drowned and suffocated in the River Thames
near New Crane Stairs
in the
parish and County aforesaid But 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, Thomas Bore the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first abovementioned
Thos. Phillips< no role >
[mark]
Coroner
Thos Bore [mark] Foreman