MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet of
Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the second Day of December 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
James James< no role > , George Frost< no role > , William Seymour< no role > , John Blake< no role > , John Varney< no role > , Thomas Passey, William
Pettit, John Smith< no role > , William Collins< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , Jacob Haynes< no role > and Robert Chambers< 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 Twenty Ninth Day of November
in the year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames at Stone Stairs
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 James James< 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

Jas James [mark] Foreman