Middlesex ,
to wit

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Parish of Saint Paul
Shadwell in the County Middlesex , the nineteenth 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 John Abbit< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of William Avery< no role >
James Rubidge< no role > , John Whittington< no role > , John Bryan< no role > , Thomas Overton< no role > , Christian
Awe, John Harris< no role > , John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Thomas Wheeler< no role >
John Wilson< no role > , Samuel Patstone< no role > , John Hall< no role > and William Burrows< 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 John Abbit< no role > ,
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said John
Abbit on the seventeenth Day of September in the Year aforesaid was
found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames at Cole Stairs in
the Parish and County aforesaid [..] That the said John Abbit< no role > 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 Avery< no role > 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

Willm Avery [mark] Foreman