City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the
Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty
Ninth day of August, in the Fourth 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 Alexander Lawrence< no role > then and there lying Dead,
upon the Oath of William Hanks< no role > , John Armon< no role > , Thomas Heblethwhite< no role > , John Griffiths< no role > , Joseph Fenmore< no role > , William Mound< no role > [..]
James Francis< no role > , Joseph Hays< no role > , John Elder< no role > , William Branch< no role > , John Hatwell< no role > , Robert Timbrell< no role > , John Cross< no role > ,
Joseph Burgen< no role > , William Bowsey< no role > , William Robertson< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , John Lawrence< no role > , John Brown< no role > ,
Richard Charles Hunt< no role > , and John West< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen
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 Alexander Lawrence came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say, That on the Twenty seventh day of August in the year aforesaid, the said
Alexander Lawrence going into the River or Stream in a certain Place near Chelsea Bridge
situate and being in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square , within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, there to bath and wash himself, It so happend that accidentally, casually, and
by Misfortune, he the said Alexander Lawrence was in the Waters of the said River, then
and there suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocative and Drowning he the said
Alexander Lawrence then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon
their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Alexander Lawrence 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 Alexander
Lawrence Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day year and
Place first abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Wm Llonks [mark] Foreman< no role >