Middlesex
To wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of [..]
in the County of Middlesex , the sixth Day of August [..] 22d. 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 Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Vallant< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Fyfield< no role > , John Scott< no role >
William Aveling< no role > Henry Hale< no role > William Benting< no role > Samuel Powell< no role >
William Hoskins< no role > Joseph Allen< no role > Thomas Bartsup Griffith Evans< no role >
William Jacques Richard Craven< no role > and Griffith Williams< 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 William Vallant< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William Vallant< no role >
on the Third Day of August in the Year aforesaid having gone into a Pond
of Water in a Field near The Foundling Hospital in Order to Bath himself
It so happened That accidentally, casually and by misfortune he the said
William Vallant< no role > was in the Waters of the said Pond then and there suffocated and
Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Vallant< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said William Vallant< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and misfortune came to this Death

In Witness whereof, as well [..] the said Coroner, as the said John Fyfield< 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

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

J Fifield [mark] Foreman