MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}
AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Poplar and Blackwall
in the County of
Middlesex
, the Tenth Day of
[..] 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 Unknownthen and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Duffield< no role >
John Hart< no role >
,
John Haynes< no role >
Archibald Ramage< no role >
,
Thomas Harwood< no role >
,
Joseph Bishop< no role >
Henry
Ringing,
Thomas Pattenden< no role >
Bridge Turner
Samuel Ewer< no role >
,
Thomas Watts< no role >
Obadiah Woodcock< no role >
and
John Fox< 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 on the seventh Day of
August in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames
near the a men caps Wharf in
The Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said man unknown
had not any Marks of Violence appearing about him And how or 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 Thomas Duffield< 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
Thomas Duffield [mark] Foreman