MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish of
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the eighteenth Day of December in the twenty third 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
Christian Awe< no role > George Haggleton< no role > Miles Dudley< no role > John Prior< no role > William Whitaker< no role >
Anthony Carlotte< no role > Robert Grieg< no role > William Davies< no role > John Carr< no role > William Watson< no role >
Thomas Hampshire< no role > Edward Barkley< no role > and William Rowed
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 Sixteenth Day
of December in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River
Thames at Shadwell Dock in the Parish and County aforesaid But 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 Christian Awe< 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
Christian Awe [mark] Foreman