MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)

AN INQUISITION Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar Blockwall [..] Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth Day of [..] in the Twenty first 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 Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Wilcox< no role > Henry Ringing< no role > Edward Key< no role > Abraham Ray< no role > , John Syer< no role > John Haynes< no role > , Thomas
Patenden, William Serley< no role > , William Hall< no role > , Joseph Robinson< no role > , Jonathan Egleton< no role > and Thomas Harwood< 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 Unknowm came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unKnown having gone into
The River Thames near The Jews Wharf in The Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and
County aforesaid In Order to Bath himself It so happened That accidentally casually
and by Misfortune He the said Man unknown was in the Waters of the said River
then and there suffocated and drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the
said Man unknown then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said Man unknown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Wilcox< 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
Wm Wilcox [mark] Foreman