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. Margaret in the City of Westmr. within the Liberty of the Doanand
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Ninth day of Mayin the Sixth 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 Frances Gardner< no role > then and there lying
dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin Baily< no role > , Charles Spikes< no role > , Richard Beadel< no role > , William Baker< no role > , Thomas Read< no role > , John
Huckle< no role > , William Adamson< no role > , Henry List< no role > , John Sadler< no role > , Richard Blunt< no role > , James Mackintosh< no role > , John
Smith< no role > , Edward Young< no role > , and William Mecklish< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly cha [..]
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 Frances Gardner< no role > -came to her Death, do upon their Oath
say, That the said Frances Gardner not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding,
but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish,
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, into the Serpentine River in Hyde Park there,
did cast and throw herself, by Means of which said Casting and Throwing, she the said Frances
Gardner, in the Waters of the said River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which
said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Frances Gard [..] then and there instantly
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid , [..] y, that the said Frances
Gardner, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being [..] and Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, did drown and kill herself.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said Benjamin Baily< no role > , Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellow, in their presence,
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Benn BailyForeman