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 Twentyninth day of January in the Twenty third
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 Hugh Pernit< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Henry Slack< no role > , Samuel Gooldin< no role > , Thomas Powell< no role >
John May< no role > , Nathaniel Giddes< no role > , John Bedford< no role > , Richard
Wakelyn< no role > , John Child< no role > , Isaac Hancock< no role > , Thomas Lee< no role > ,
Richard Bell< no role > and Thomas Bond< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and these duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Hugh Pernit came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Hugh Pernit, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted on the Tenth day of December
in the year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, into the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park there did cast and
throw himself, [..] Means of which said [..] ting
and throwing he the said Hugh Pernit it in the Waters of the
Said River was then and there Suffocated and Drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Hugh
Pernit then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Hugh Pernit
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Henry Slack< 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
Henry Slack< no role > [mark] Foreman