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 Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty
-seventh day of March in the Fifth 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 Bouchereau< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the
Oath of Henry Allibone< no role > , James Sinclair< no role > , John Abbott< no role > , Jeremiah Beaver< no role > , Francis
Bursill< no role > , John Gilliam< no role > , Robert Potter< no role > , Robert Laws< no role > , Thomas Gooch< no role > , John Simpson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
Thomas Withers< no role > and William Rumridgegood< no role > 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 John Bouchereau< no role > came to his Death, do upon their
Oath say, That the said John Bouchereau< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory, and Understanding,
but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid, into the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, did cast and throw himself, by Means of which said Casting and Throwing, he
the said John Boachereau in the Waters of the said River was Suffocated and Drowned,
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said John Bouchereau< no role > died the same day
in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said John Bouchereau< no role > , in manner and by the Means aforesaid,
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, did drown
and kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Henry
Allibone< no role > 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, that Day Year and
Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Henry Allibone< no role >