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 St. 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 Twenty first day of May 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 Edmund Padbury< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Burgan< no role > Joseph Hooper< no role > , Owen Scott< no role >
Thomas Storer< no role > , Hugh Munro< no role > , Thomas Gronna< no role >
Michael Bryan< no role > , John Small< no role > , William Pitch< no role > , John
Milliner< no role > , Christopher Wharton< no role > , and William Richardson< 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 Edmund Padbury< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Edmund Padbury< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted on the Twenty first day of
May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, into the Bason in Hyde Park
there did cast and throw himself, by Means of which said
Casting and Throwing he the said Edmund Padbury< no role >
in the Water in the said Bason was then and there
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said Edmund Padbury< no role > then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Edmund Padbury< no role >
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted, did drown and kill himself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said John Burgan< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors
on the behalf of himself and the rest of is Fellows,
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jno. Burgan [mark] Foreman