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 Nineteenth day of June in the twenty ninth
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 Thomas Chalk< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Henry Slack< no role > , Thomas Henderson< no role > , George Bye< no role > , Edward
Lee< no role > , Thomas Grona< no role > , William Tanner< no role > , John Birne< no role > , William
Powlett< no role > , Francis Daniel< no role > , Edward Rawling< no role > , Christopher Wharton< no role >
and George Clark< 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 Thomas Chalk< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Chalk< no role > not being
of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted,
on the Eighteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish of
Saint Martin in the Fields in the County aforesaid, (to wit) into a
certain Pond in the Green Park , there did cast and throw himself, by
[..] of which said casting and throwing he the said Thomas Chalk< no role >
in the water of the said Pond was then and there suffocated & Drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas Chalk< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Chalk< no role > not being of
Sound Mind memory and Understanding but Lunatick and
distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did Drown and
kill himself.

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Henry Slack< 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 .

Henry Slack< no role > [mark] Foreman.