MIDDLESEX
.
(To wit)}
AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint John Wapping
in the County of
Middlesex
, the fourteenth 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
A Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Cornelius Harrington< no role >
Charles Todd< no role >
,
Griffin Boardman< no role >
,
Joseph Meirs< no role >
,
Joseph Hare< no role >
Benjamin
Robinson William Veasy< no role >
,
Alexander Buchannan< no role >
Moses Cornwall< no role >
William Blackbourne< no role >
John
Hebron George Messervie and Leonard Barginal
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 Woman unknown came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Woman unknown on the Eleventh Day of
February in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in the River Thames
at
Hermitage
Chain in the Parish and County aforesaid But how or by what Means she became
drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Cornelius Harrington< no role >
the Foreman of the 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
Cornelius Harrington< no role >
[mark] Foreman