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 Thirteenth day of September 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
Roger Hall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Beedle< no role > , James Mc: Intosh< no role > , William Thompson< no role > , Samuel Colinson< no role > , John Mills< no role > ,
James Gordon< no role > , William Flowers< no role > , Berney Flinn< no role > , Henry List< no role > , John Lee< no role > ,
Henry Randall< no role > and Thomas Read< 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 Roger Hall< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Roger Hall< no role > , not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted on the Tenth day Of September in the Year aforesaid,
into the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, himself did cast and
throw, by Means whereof the said Roger Hall< no role > in the Water of
the said River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of
which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Roger Hall< no role > then
and there died; And so Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Roger Hall< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Richard Beedle< 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,l the Day Year and
Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner
Richd. Beedle< no role > Foreman