City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented; taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster , in the County of Middlesex the Sixth day of July
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 Faith and so forth, before Thomas
Prickard< no role > Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View
of the Body of John Webb< no role > then and there lying Dead upon the Oath of Thomas Thompson< no role > , Alexander
Black< no role > , John Walsh< no role > , Edward Jay< no role > , John Hainslow< no role > , Thomas Shelshaw< no role > , Henry Twentiman< no role > , Jasper Smith< no role >
William Rose< no role > , James Obrey< no role > , Edward Woodcock< no role > , John Baker< no role > , George Goodall< no role > , Thomas Wild< no role > and John Trueman< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, 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 John
Webb< no role > , came to his Death Do upon their Oath say, That on the fourth day of July in the Year
aforesaid, the said John Webb< no role > was walking in Hyde Park , and in going by the said of a Pond
of Water, near a Building called the Cheese Cake House in the said Parish of St. George Hanover
Square , within the Liberty and County aforesaid; It so happened that the said John
Webb< no role > Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune fell into the said Pond, and in the Waters
thereof was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said John Webb< no role > then and there instantly Died; And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon
their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Webb< no role > , in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise,
In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Thompson< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place
abovementioned.

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Tho Thompson< no role > [mark] Foreman