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 Twenty fifth day of September in the Eleventh 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 Women Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Toon< no role > ,
William Blackburn< no role > ; William Worthington< no role > , Robert Hammond< no role > , George Smith< no role > , John Walsh< no role > ,
Isaac Fenn< no role > , Richard Ferry< no role > , Joseph Thornton< no role > , Thomas Henley< no role > , William Furley< no role > , John Dudley< no role >
William Shells< no role > and William Macdowal< 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 Woman unknown came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Coroner unknown on the
Twenty fourth day of September in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned
and Suffocated in the River Thomas, to wit at Spread Eagle Stairs, in the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid that the said
Woman unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on her Body
but how or by what Means she became drowned and Suffocated no
Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors, In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said William Toon< 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 Hand and Seals the
Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

William Toon< no role > Foreman