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 second 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 James Walker< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Edward Chandler< no role > , George Byles< no role > , Cortes Telfair< no role >
Francis Rose< no role > , Robert Hammond< no role > , James Westover< no role >
William Hinchelwood< no role > , John Mollard< no role > , John Matthews< no role >
Robert Anderson< no role > , Jacob Bevis< no role > , and James Pagan< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chose, 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 James Walker< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said James Walker< no role > on
the Twenty first day of May in the Year aforesaid was found Drowned in
the Serpentine River in Hyde Park at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
That the said James Walker< no role > had no Marks of violence
appearing on his Body, but how or by what Means he
became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof
doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said Edward Chandler< 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
Edwd Chandler [mark] Foreman