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 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 Thomas Bird< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
John Bradshaw< no role > , James Dowdell< no role > , Charles Elwell< no role >
Joseph Thorley< no role > , William Gee< no role > , William Keeple< no role > , James
Barber< no role > , Avery Tyrrell< no role > , Henry List< no role > , John Stone< no role >
James Pagan< no role > and John Lee< 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 Thomas Bird< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Bird< no role > on the
Twenty eighth day of July in the Year aforesaid, going to bath
himself in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so
happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
he the said Thomas Bird< no role > was in the Water of the said River
then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said
suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas Bird< no role > then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Bird< no role > in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his death
and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said John Bradshaw< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Bradshaw
Foreman}