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 Third day of
Junein the Seventh 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 a Man whose name is Unknown then and there lying
dead, upon the Oath of Richard Brunton< no role > , John Edwards< no role > , Christopher Hodgkison< no role > , John
Memory< no role > , William Mansfield< no role > , Benjamin Cann< no role > , Edward Stevens< no role > , Thomas Sanderson< no role > , Edward
Billam< no role > , Joseph Thompson< no role > , William Jenner< no role > & William Minnis< 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 Man unknown came to his Death, do upon
their Oath say, That the said Man unknown not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding
but lunatick and distracted, on the first day of June in the Year aforesaid, into the Bason 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 Man unknown
in the Waters in the said Bason was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said Man unknown then and there instantly died. And
so the Jurors aforesaid their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Man Unknown in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted, did drown and hill himself. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Richard Brunton< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his 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
Richd. Branton< no role > Foreman