MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the [..]
[..] the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty Second Day of [..] in the Twenty forth [..] Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, 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 Boy Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
David Nightingale< no role > Charles Folkes< no role > , George Kitchen< no role > James Thatcher< no role > . Charles Mellin< no role > , Christian Awe
Samuel Shepherd< no role > , Thomas Street< no role > John Pouncely< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > , William Cooper< no role > Thomas Laycock< no role > and
William Rowed
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 Boy Unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Boy unKnown on the Tenth Day of
June in the Year aforesaid was Found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
at Shadwell Dock Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid But how ex 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 David Nightingale< 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
David Nightingale< no role > [mark] Foreman