MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Seventh Day of July 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
Thomas Waife an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Powell< no role > , Thomas Clarke< no role > William Taylor< no role > , Cuthbert Hayes< no role > Michael Robinson< no role > Thomas Robinson< no role >
James Randall< no role > , John Meeres< no role > , Edward Ewer< no role > , George Goodyear< no role > Andrew Uners< no role > William Lawes< no role > , John
Pickett Samuel Bennett, and Evan Jones< 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 Thomas Waife [..] came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Waife being an Infant of the
Age of Eight Years or thereabouts on the Fifth day of July in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune fell into
The River Thames at Execution Dock in the Parish and County aforesaid and was in
the Waters thereof then and there Suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said Thomas Waife then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas Waife 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 James Powell< 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
Jas Powell [mark] Foreman< no role >