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 Sixth day of August in 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 Joseph Wadman< no role > then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of William Hodson< no role > , Edward Griffith< no role > , William Yeates< no role > , John Lynn< no role > , Francis
Bursell< no role > , Rennard Hadley< no role > , John Beardmore< no role > , Thomas Hawker< no role > , William Myles< no role > , Thomas Coward< no role > ,
John Haynes< no role > , John Payne< no role > and Jonathan Claridge< 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 Joseph Wadman came to his Death
do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Wadman on the Fifth day of August in the
Year aforesaid, was found drowned and suffocated in the River near the Bridge in Hyde
Park , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said
Joseph Wadman had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body, but how or by
what Means he became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to
the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
William Hodson< 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, the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm HodsonForeman