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

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Knightsbridge in 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 Tenth day of February in the Twentieth 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 Richard
Dobinson< no role > , Robert Lyne< no role > , Thomas Redar< no role > , John Roberts< no role > , John Lee< no role > , George
Puffin< no role > Richard Beadle< no role > , Nathan Smith< no role > , William Boucher< no role > Thomas Dyne< no role >
James Hembrow< no role > and William Watson< 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 Ninth day of February in the Year aforesaid
was found drowned and suffocated in the Serpentine
River in Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That
no Marks of violence appeared on the Body of
the said Man unknown, but how or by what
Means he became Drowned and Suffocated, no
Evidence there doth appear to the Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Richard Dobinson< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Richd. DobinsonForeman