MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth Day of August 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 Boy Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Cooper< no role > Christian Awe< no role > Thomas Street< no role > , Jeffrey Phillips< no role > William Rowa, Michael Fenning< no role >
Fredrick Miller< no role > , Anthony Carlatte< no role > John Teasdale< no role > , William Spooner< no role > , Charles Folkes< no role > , and Thomas Measure
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 Eleventh Day
of August in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at King James's Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid That the
said Boy 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 William Cooper< 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
William Cooper< no role > [mark] Foreman