MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint John Hackney in the County of
Middlesex , the eleventh Day of November in the twenty sixth 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
William Hannam Thomas Charleton< no role > James Fletcher< no role > Thomas Sarson< no role > William Monk< no role > Francis Holland< no role >
William North< no role > over John Fry< no role > Charles Wood< no role > John Truman< no role > Thomas Woodward< no role > Henry Abchurch Joseph
Hill and John Earles< 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 Ninth Day of November
in the Year aforesaid having lain himself down upon a certain Brich Kiln which was then
burning in Hobsons Field situate at Kinsland in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened
That he the said Man unknown was by the [..] Smeak and Talphur arising from the said Brick kiln then and
there choaked, suffocated and stifled, of which said Choaking, Suffocation and Stifling he the said
man unknown then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say That the said man unknown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Hannam< 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

W Hannam [mark] Foreman