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 fifth day of June 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 Jeremiah Langton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Gilbert< no role > , John Seccombe< no role > , William Baylys< no role >
William Harrison< no role > , John Cook< no role > , John Bedford< no role > , William
Buckland< no role > , John Cross< no role > James Ross< no role > John Milliner< no role > ,
Charles Purcell< no role > and Thomas Storer< 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 Jeremiah Langton< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Jeremiah Langton a Laborer on
the fourth day of June in the Year aforesaid being employed
to Water the Road in Hyde Park , and standing upon a Water Cart
drawn by two Horses felling the said Cart with Water in the
Serpentine River in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid It so happened that the Wheels of the
said Cart sunk into a Hole, and that the said Jeremiah
Langton fell off and from the said Cart 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 Jeremiah Langton< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Jeremiah Langton< 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 Gilbert< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Gilbert< no role > [mark] Foreman