MIDDLESEX
(To wit).}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet of
Ratcliff in the Parish of Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fourth Day of July in the Twenty first 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, 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
Samuel Ewen< no role > , Joseph Bishop< no role > , John Hart< no role > , Thomas Harwood< no role > , Thomas Yates< no role > , William Everitt< no role > , Roger
Caller, John Hager< no role > , Obadiah Woodcock< no role > , John Haynes< no role > , John Hill< no role > and John Horn< 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 Unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding Best Lunatic and distracted on the seventeenth
Day of July in the Year aforesaid himself into the River Thames did Cast and throw
By means of which said Casting and Throwing 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 not being of sound mind
Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid Did drown and Kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Ewen< 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
Samuel Ewen [mark] Foreman