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 Twelfth day of March 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 a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Thomas Bretton< no role >
Joseph Matthews< no role >
Thomas Stevens< no role >
Robert Best< no role >
,
William Horrock< no role >
,
Robert Seabrook< no role >
,
Joseph Goddard< no role >
,
Richard Hoy< no role >
,
John Sheercraft< no role >
,
William House< no role >
,
Robert Maxwell< no role >
and
William Turner< 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 on
the Tenth day of March in the Year aforesaid was found
Drowned and Suffocated in the Reservoir in the Green Park
in the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
That the said Woman unknown had no Marks of
violence appearing on her Body, but how or by what
Means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Thomas
Bretton< 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 above written
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner
Tho: Bretton Foreman