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 Margaret in Knightsbridge
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of January in the twenty fourth
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 Edward Lane< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Ralph Mills< no role > , William Wood< no role > , John Bradshaw< no role > ,
William Hinchelwood< no role > , Thomas Barber< no role > , Edward Frost< no role >
James Wooley< no role > , Avery Tyrrell< no role > , William Gee< no role > , William
Sharp< no role > , Thomas Stevens< no role > , Francis Percival< no role > and
Thomas Leward< 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 Edward Lane< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Lane< no role > on the
Twenty first day of January in the Year aforesaid being
Seateing upon the Ice on the Serpentine River in Hyde
Park at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that
The Iee broke, and that the said Edward Lane< no role > Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune did then and there fall into
the said River, and in the Water thereof was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Edward Lane< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Edward Lane< 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 Ralph Mills< 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 first abovewritten

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Ralph Mills< no role > [mark] Foreman