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 Fourteenth day of December in the Fourteenth 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 there lying dead, upon the Oath of George
Musson< no role > , Joseph Belcher< no role > , Robert Mason< no role > , Richard Tomkins< no role > , Henry Hunt< no role > ,
James Jeffreys< no role > , John Cann< no role > , William Stadling< no role > , Charles Williams< no role > , Thomas
Purver< no role > , James Pagan< no role > and Richard Burton< 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
his Death do upon their Oath say That the said Man unknown on the
Eleventh day of December in the Year aforesaid, was found
Drowned and Suffocated in a certain Pond 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
George Musson< 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 abovewirtten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

George Musson< no role > Foreman