Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint,
George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter at Westminster the Fourteenth 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 Thomas Beven< no role > , John Stevens< no role > , Joseph Calway< no role > , John Newall< no role > , William Skates< no role > , Paul
Webster< no role > , John North< no role > , John Wills< no role > , James Reeves< no role > , Thomas Hall< no role > , John Hainslow< no role > , Thomas
Burton< no role > , John Miller< no role > , Edward Plasted< no role > , Henry Hubbard< no role > , William James< no role > , William Lewis< no role >
Christopher Nettleton< no role > , and John Wilson< no role > Good and Lawfull Men of the
said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the
Kind how when where and in what manner the said Woman unknown came to her
Death Say upon their Oaths That on Thursday the 13th day of March Instant the said
Woman unknown being found in a certain River called the Serpentine River in Hyde Park
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the Liberty 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 and find 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

Thos Bevan< no role > Foreman