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

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of
St. Peter at Westminster the Second day of May 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
View of the Body of a Man unknown then and there lying Dead by the Oaths
of John Turner< no role > John Smith< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , Charles Glover< no role > , John Harriet< no role > , Thomas
Rashby< no role > , John Appleton< no role > , Thomas Seed< no role > , Ezra Ede< no role > , Jonathan Gibbs< no role > , William Harrison< no role >
Paul Turner< no role > , William Sebin< no role > , John Shipman< no role > , Matthew Buckinger< no role > This name instance is in set 2258. , Robert Elliot< no role >
and Daniel Jones< 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 Man unknown came
to his Death, Say upon their Oaths. That on Thursday the first day of May
Instant about Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the Same day the said Man
unknown being Lunatick and not of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding did come
alone to a certain Water near unto the Serpentime River in Hyde Park in the Parish
of St. George Hanover Square in the Liberty and County aforesaid and did then and
there Voluntary throw and cast himself into the said Water and was thereby then
and there Drowned. And so the said Jurors upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that
the said Man unknown came to his Death by the cause aforesaid in manner
and form aforesaid. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foreman
of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the
day year and at the place abovesaid

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

Jno. Turner< no role > Foreman