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

An Inquisition 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 Twenty ninth day of July 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 Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Jobbins< no role > John Collard< no role > Richard Tomkins< no role > , Harry Higham< no role > ,
John Tomlin< no role > Stephen Laxton< no role > , William Hinchelwood< no role >
John Bradshaw< no role > Evan Marsh< no role > , James Dunn< no role > , Thomas Barker< no role >
and Henry Carr< 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 the said Woman unknown
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted on the Twenty seventh day of July
in the Year aforesaid, into the Serpentine River in Hyde-
-Park in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, did cast and throw herself, by Means
of which said Casting and Throwing she the said Woman
whose Name is unknown in the Water of the said River
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 well the said Coroner as the said
James Jobbins< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Js Tobbins
Foreman}
[mark]