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 Twelfth 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 Cable, Henry Lawman< no role >
George Atkins< no role > , John Ham< no role > , John Porter< no role > , William Randall< no role > , Joseph Higgins< no role > , Mathew
Bensfield, John Smith< no role > , John Hagen< no role > , James Thornton< no role > and John Green< no role > good and lawfull
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 Tenth Day of November in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in
the River Thames at Blackwall in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid
That the said Man 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 Cable 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. Philip Coroner [mark]

William Cable Foreman [mark]