MIDDLESEX
.
(To wit.)}
AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwall
in the Parish of Stepney
in the County of
Middlesex
, the twenty sixth 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 Bodies of
Daniel Payne< no role >
and Eleanor Mulgreaves Infant then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Jackson< no role >
,
John Cole< no role >
,
John Hill< no role >
,
George Westgate< no role >
,
Henry Corbell< no role >
,
John Worrall< no role >
,
Obadiah Woodcock< no role >
,
William Randall< no role >
,
William Biggs< no role >
, Jacob Bill, Edward
Key,
Archibald Ramage< no role >
and
John Watts< 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
Daniel Payne< no role >
and
Eleanor Mulgreaves< no role >
came to their
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said
Daniel Payne< no role >
and
Eleanor Mulgreaves< no role >
on the Twenty fourth Day of April in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by
Misfortune fell into a Sewer of Water and Filth belonging to the South Marsh
at Blackwall
in the Hamlet aforesaid in the Parish and County aforesaid and were in the said water
and Filth
[..] of the said Sewer then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning they the said
Daniel Payne< no role >
and
Eleanor Mulgreaves< no role >
then and there died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Daniel Payne< no role >
[..] and by the
[..] fore
[..] accidentally casually and
[..]
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Jackson< 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
Robert Jackson< no role >
[mark] Foreman