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 Second day of April in the twenty second 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
Elizabeth Cousings< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Isaac
Hancock< no role > , John Copines< no role > Thomas Astall< no role > , Michael Brian< no role >
John Butler< no role > , Thomas Barnard< no role > , Thomas Shankston< no role > ,
Charles Bishop< no role > , Walter Cherinton< no role > , William Lewer< no role > , George
Hills< no role > and Richard Bell< 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 Elizabeth Cousings came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Cousines not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted, on the First day of April in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish, and in the Liberty and County aforesaid,
to Wit, into the Serpentine River in Hyde Park there did
cast and throw herself, by Means of which said Casting
and Throwing she the said Elizabeth Cousings in the
Waters of the said River was then and there suffocated
and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
she the said Elizabeth Cousings then and there died:
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Elizabeth Cousings not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did
drown and kill herself. In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the said Isaac Hancock< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of
his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Isaac. Hancock [mark] Foreman