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 thirteenth 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
Thomas King< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Mark Jones< no role > , John Beaumont< no role > , John Porter< no role > , Thomas Willis< no role > , Job Hawkes Joseph Murphy< no role > Thomas
Kington, James Guy< no role > , John Hagen< no role > , Henry Lawman< no role > , William Randall< no role > and William White< 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 Thomas King< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas King< no role > on the Eleventh Day of
December in the Year aforesaid being intoxicated with strong Liquor and having accidentally
fallen down Stairs in the Dwelling House of John Atkinson< no role > situate in the Hamlet aforesaid
in the Parish and County aforesaid It so happened That he the said Thomas King< no role > was
by the Fumes arising from the said Liquor then and there choaked, suffocated and stifled
Of which said Choaking, Suffocation and Stifling he the said Thomas King< no role > then and there
died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas
King 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 Mark Jones< 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

Mark Jones< no role > [mark] Foreman