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 Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the First day of February in the Tenth 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 Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Mc. Cliesh< no role > , Thomas Andrews< no role > , Edward Young< no role > , William Flower< no role > , Henry
Beauchamp< no role > , Robert Stroud< no role > , James Jones< no role > , Benjamin Smith< no role > , Mark
Halkin< no role > , Edward Chandler< no role > , John Randall< no role > and John Nunneley< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man Unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown on the
Thirty first day of January in the Year aforesaid, was found Drowned
and Suffocated, in a certain Road between the two Bridges in Hyde
Park , in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
That no Marks of Violence appeared on his Body, but how or by
what Means the said Man unknown became drowned and Suffocated
no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said William Mc. Cliesh
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
Wm Mc Cliesh< no role > Foreman