City and Liberty
of Westmister
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 Twenty ninth day of July in the Thirteenth 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
William Chatham< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Newberry< no role > ,
John Stevens< no role > , Henry List< no role > , William Gee< no role > , Richard Beedle< no role > , Robert Stroud< no role > , John Winn< no role > , Thomas
Davenish< no role > , Thomas Reeder< no role > , John Sadler< no role > , William Macleish< no role > , Robert Mason< no role > , Avery Tirreell< no role > ,
Benjamin Bailey< no role > , and James Pagan< 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 William Chatham< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said William Chatham< no role > on the Twenty fourth
day of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the
Liberty and County aforesaid to wit at Hyde Park going into the Serpentive River there
to Swim it so happened that accidentaly casually and by Misfortune be the said
William Chatham< no role > was in the waters of he said River then and there Suffocated and
Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Chatham< no role > instantly
Did And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
William Chatham< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and
by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the
rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day
Year and at the Place first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Tho Newberry< no role > Foreman.