MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Poplar and Blackwell in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighteenth Day of May 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Ashley< no role > , David Finman< no role > , James Porter< no role > , Jacob Callaway< no role > , James Ruder< no role >
John Handley< no role > , John Stanley< no role > , John Midford< no role > , Samuel Springall< no role > , Eve Lever< no role >
Peter Scott< no role > , and David Whitehart< 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 Man unknown came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Man unknown not being of sound mind
Memory and understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Sixteenth Day of May
in the Year aforesaid at The Hamlet aforesaid in The parish and County aforesaid himself
into a certain Piece [..] of Water there situate called Poplar Gut Did Cast and throw By Means
of which said casting and Throwing he the said Man unknown was in the Waters thereof
then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
Man unknown then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
Say That the said Man unknown not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding
but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Did drown and kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Ashley< 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
Richard Ashley< no role > [mark] Foreman