MIDDLESEX
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the precinct
of Saint Catherine in the County of
Middlesex , the Twentieth Day of February 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, in View of the Body of
John Costine< no role > an Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Brent< no role > Anthony Jenkins< no role > Thomas Heading< no role > John Storme< no role > William Potts< no role >
John Dawson< no role > William Baker< no role > William Newport< no role > Waiter Vincent< no role > George Elliott< no role >
James Anderson< no role > Jacob Cook< no role > Jethro Weatherstone< no role > This name instance is in set 2817. and Richard Millard< 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 said Costine came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said James Costine< no role > on the Eighteenth Day
of February in the year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Eight Years or
thereabouts and being Walking with his Father David Costine< no role > on a certain Wharf
in the Precinct and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said James
Costine in suddenly attempting to Jump from the said Wharf into a certain Lighter
then lying in the River Thames near to the said Wharf then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell into the said River and was in the Waters thereof
then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the
said James Costine then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say that the said James Costine< no role > in Manner and by the
means aforesaid accidentally, casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Brent< 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

John Brent< no role > [mark] Foreman