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 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 Ninth day of May in the Twelfth 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 John
Kightley< no role > , John Farthing< no role > , Henry Chamberlain< no role > , Philip Mitchell< no role > , Joseph Coulthard< no role > ,
John Fenwick< no role > , James Peter Coghlan< no role > , John Meredith< no role > , Rowland Edwards< no role > , John
Jackson< no role > , Ezekiel Elliot< no role > , George Martin< no role > , James Scott< no role > , Charles Hamilton< no role > , John
Carr< no role > and William Jones< 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
Sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid, was found Drowned and
Suffocated in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said
Man unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his Body,
but how or by what Means he became Drowned, no Evidence thereof
doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said John Kightley 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 > [mark] Coroner
John [..] [mark] Foreman