City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at Knights bridge in the Parish of St. 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 Third day of October 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Stevens< no role > Thomas Ferguson< no role > , John Smith< no role > , James Sedgrove< no role > , Edward Brown< no role > , Ralph
Mills< no role > , William Knight< no role > Henry List< no role > , James Stovey< no role > , James Pringle< no role > , Avery Tyrrell< no role > ,
William Adderson< no role > and John Phoenix< 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
Second day of October in the Year aforesaid was found drowned
and Suffocated in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the
Parish of Saint Margaret 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 and suffocated no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Stevens< 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 > [mark] Coroner

John Stevens< no role > [mark] Foreman