MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the third Day of January in the twenty Second Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grave 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 Biggs< no role > John Cole< no role > Edward Cockle< no role > John Finch< no role > James Tipping< no role > ham George atkins< no role > John
Porter Benjamin< no role > Surry William Randal< no role > Thomas Harwood< no role > William Hall< no role > and James
Armstead
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 second Day of
January in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames
at Blackwall Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid 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 beca [..] owned andlocated no Evidence doth appear to th [..]
Jurors [..]

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