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

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Knights bridge 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 Thirty first day of March 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 Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Benjamin Baily< no role > , William Mc. Cleise< no role > , James Mc. Intosh< no role > , John
Dobinson< no role > , James Leeke< no role > , John Blanchard< no role > , John Doney< no role >
Joseph Cox< no role > , Francis Palmer< no role > , Robert Weston< no role > , John
Peverley< no role > and Burket Shudi< 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 on the Twenty ninth day of March
in the Year aforesaid the said Woman unknown was found drowned
and suffocated in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, That the said
Woman unknown had no Marks of violence appearing on her
Body, but how or by what Means she became drowned
and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof do appear to the Jurors.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the
said Benjamin Baily< 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
Benn. BailyForeman