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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at 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 fifth day of April 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 George
Riley< no role > James Randall< no role > , John Watson< no role > , Thomas Clark< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , James
Hall< no role > , Thomas Pitts< no role > , Barrell Innes< no role > , Thomas Paul< no role > , William Harding< no role >
Henry Maggs< no role > and Thomas Serle< 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 is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Woman Unknown
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted on the Second day of April
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields in the County aforesaid, to Wit, into the Reservoir
in St. James's Green Park , there did cast and throw herself
by Means of which said lasting and throwning she the
said Woman Unknown in the Waters of the said
Reservoir 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, not being of sound Mind Memory
and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, did
drown and kill herself. In Witness whereof as
will the said Coroner as the said George Riley< 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 .

Georg Riley [mark] Foreman< no role >