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 eighth Day of February 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
George Airs< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Burkin< no role > , John Blake< no role > , John Paulin< no role > , David Buchannor< no role > , John Smith< no role > , William Shilton< no role >
William Pettit< no role > , Thomas Forge Walter Twaitt< no role > , William Wilkinson< no role > George Penny< no role > William Seymour< no role >
and Andrew Faulkner< 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 George Airs came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Airs on the sixth Day of February
in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River Thames near Stone
Stairs in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid That the said George
Airs 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 Thomas Burkin< 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
Thos Burkin [mark] Foreman