City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovererign 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 Counrty of Middlesex , the Twenty eightith day of March in the Twenty Sixth
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 sorth, 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 Man Unknown then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Oakes< no role > , Edward Davis< no role > , John Paling< no role > ,
John Wooding< no role > , Thomas Shankster< no role > This name instance is in set 00. . Abraham Tibbet< no role > ,
Owen Scott< no role > , John Disney< no role > , William Warner< no role > , John Wingfield< no role >
William Bevan< no role > , and John Millener< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when how and by that what Means the said Man unknown came to
h is Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown
on the Twenty fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid
was found drowned and suffocated, in the Year aforesaid
Reservation in Hyde Park in the said Parish of saint
George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, that the said Man Unknown had no marks
of violence appearing on his Body , but how or what
means he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence
there of Doth appear to the Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner , as the said Richard Oakes< 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

Richd. Oakes< no role > [mark] Foreman