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 Sixteenth day of November in the Nineteenth 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 Woman Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Pixley< no role > , William Gibson< no role > Jeffrey Crane< no role > , Henry Slack< no role > , John Moore< no role > ,
Joseph Johnson< no role > Francis Rivett< no role > , Henry Westmacot< no role > , Charles Clark< no role > ,
John Lewis< no role > , Robert Scott< no role > , Thomas Poyntell< no role > , Thomas Browning< no role > and
George Wright< 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 Woman unknown came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman unknown on
the Thirteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid being
in Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, And that the said Woman Unknown Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune in a certain Pond was then and
there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and
Drowning she the said Woman unknown then and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Woman unknown in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
came to her death and not otherwise. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Pixley< 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

Wm, W. Pixley [mark] Foreman