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 Sixth day of April in the Eighteenth 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
Sarah Winter< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Townsend< no role > , Thomas Legg< no role > , John Lewis< no role > Samuel Battman< no role > , Thomas Haley< no role > , John
Midland< no role > Charles Bishop< no role > John Wilson< no role > , Barnard Marr< no role > , John Joison< no role > , Daniel
Bergman< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Joseph Old< no role > and Peter Henderson< 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 Sarah Winter< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah Winter< no role > , Not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the fourteenth day of March in the year
aforesaid into a certain Baron in Hyde Park in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, there did
cast and throw herself, by means of which said Casting and
Throwing she the said Sarah Winter< no role > in the Water in the said
Bason was then and there suffocated and Drowned, of which
said Suffocation and Downing she the said Sarah Winter< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid dy say that the said Sarah Winter< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but
lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid did kill and drown herself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said William Townsend< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said
fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm. Townsend Foreman