City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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


An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the
Liberty of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster the Thirteenth
day of January in the 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 forth and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and Sixty two
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 Woman unknownthen and there lying Dead by the Oaths of Mark Warkeup< no role > , William Green< no role >
John Turner< no role > , Edward Hodlington< no role > , Ambrose Hardyside< no role > , John Walton< no role > , John Morley< no role > , Charles Davis< no role > , William Coles< no role > , Samuel
Waters
< no role > , James Drinkwater< no role > , John Coward< no role > , Mark Potter< no role > and William Jackling< no role > .
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn
and Charged to Enquire 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 Eleventh day of January Instant in the Year aforesaid the said Woman,
unknown being found in a certain River called the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
and no marks of appearing on the Body of the said Woman unknown whereby to occasion her Death, nor any
Evidence to be found to prove who she is or how she came into the said River, the said Jurors do say and find that by
the appearance of the Body of the said Woman unknown she in the said River was Drowned, but whether of her own
Will or by 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 set their hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner .

Mark Warup< no role > Forman




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