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 Twentieth day of June 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Joseph
Watson< no role > , Alexander Black< no role > , Alexander Gardener< no role > John Facey< no role > ,
Henry Walker< no role > , John Davis< no role > , William Farquharson< no role > , Joshua
Brooks< no role > , Abraham Musgrave< no role > , John Seaton< no role > Henry
Slack< no role > and Richard Wakelyn< 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 whose Name in unknown
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted, on the Eighteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid,
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit,
into the Bason in Hyd Park there did cast and throw himself,
by Means of which said Casting and Throwing he the said Man
Unknown in the Water in the said Bason was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Man unknown then and there instantly died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said Man unknown in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted, did drown and kill himself.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence
Day Year and Place abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

J Watson [mark] Foreman