City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Twenty second day
of February 1766. at Knightsbridge in the Parish of
St. Margaret within the City and Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex on an Inquisition
touching the Death of a Woman Unknown lying
Dead in the said Parish City Liberty and County.

Joseph Williams< no role > Servant to the [..] Company of the Chelsea Water Works
in the Capacity of Turncock on his Oath saith, That on Thursday
Morning last about half an hour after ten o'Clock Dept. was in Hyde Park
when a Gentleman and his Servant came up to him on Horselow
and the Gentleman said that he believed a Woman was Drowned
in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park , not for from Kensington
Garden Wall , Says that he immediately went there, with
another Man, whose Name Dept. does not know, and Discovered
the Deced in the Serpentine River about three Yards from
with her fare downwards
the Shore, Says that the other Man went into the River
aged with the Assistance of Deponent pulled the Deced to the
Shore in the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster , Says that
She was then Dead but Dept. observes no Marks of Violence
upon the Deced, Says that he did not know the Deced

Sworn the Day year & Place
above mentioned before me
Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner .}

Joseph William< no role >