MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary Whitechapell in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of April in the Twenty second 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 Silas Payne< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Hammond< no role > , Thomas Jeggett< no role > , Thomas Noble< no role > , William Donavan< no role > , James Plummer< no role >
Abraham Brown< no role > , James Lunn< no role > , John Marks< no role > , James Burnett< no role > , John Vango< no role > , William
Collins< no role > , and Richard Wheeler< 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 Silas Payne came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Silas Payne on the Fifth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid being an Infant of the Age of Thirteen Years
or thereabouts And being at Play in a Place called The Orchard House Yard situate
in the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney
in the County aforesaid And having taken hold of the Head of a certain Cash which
was filled with Beef and was then rolling from a Bank at the River Thames
into [..] Yard It so happened That he the said Tho [..] then
[..] by misfortune [..] did
[..]
[..] aforesaid in the Parish and County a [..]
first abovementioned (to wit) in a certain Hospital there situate called The London
Hospital Did Languish for the Space of about three Hours and then died (to wit.)
in the London Hospital aforesaid And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Thomas Silas Payne in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune Came to his Death And That the said Cash and the Beef
therein contained were the Cause of the Death of the said Thomas Silas Payne and are
of the value of Five Shillings and the Property and in the Possession of William Ward< no role > of the said Hamlet Esquire
or of his Assigns

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Hammond< 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

John Hammond< no role > [mark] Foreman