Westminster
City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex
}
to wit
An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St.
Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster
the Eleventh day of March in the thirty third
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of
Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and sixty
Before John Feary< no role >
Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of Westminster
aforesaid Upon a Veiw of the Body of a Woman unknown then and there Lying
Dead by the Oaths of Cary Boncher< no role >
Humphrey Goddard< no role >
, Joseph Hawkins< no role >
, Titus Wilson< no role >
Edward
Gales< no role >
Richard Martin< no role >
, Richard Garrett< no role >
John Arnold< no role >
, Charles Macgregor< no role >
, Richard Sill< no role >
, John
Peirson< no role >
, William Evans< no role >
, James Wilshire< no role >
, Paul Tibboe< no role >
, Charles Clarke< no role >
Nathaniel Gunn< no role >
&
William Morgan< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the
said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord
the King how, when, where and in what manner the said Woman unknown came
to her Death Say upon their Oaths That on Monday the 10th, day of March Instant
the said Woman unknown being found in a certain River called the River of Thames
near
the New Bridge in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City and County aforesaid and no marks
of Violence appearing on the Body of the said Woman to Occasion her Death, nor any
Evidence to be found to prove either who she was or how or when she came into the
said River We the said Jurors upon our Oaths do say [..] that by the appearence
of the Body of the said Woman unknown she in the said River aforesaid was Drowned
but whether by her own Will or by any Accident or Misfortune the Jurors know not
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid
have to this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the day Year and at the Place
aforesaid
Jno. Feary< no role >
Coroner
Cary Boucher< no role >
Foreman