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 Tenth day of October 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 Margaret Flemming then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of William Carpenter< no role > , John Cade< no role > , John Mac Neill< no role > , Francis
Warren< no role > , Alexander Russ< no role > , George Bigg< no role > , Thomas Elmes< no role > , John Shinn< no role >
Thomas Reynoldson< no role > , James Tutty< no role > , John Hardy< no role > , Charles
Vough< no role > , Dennet Jacques< no role > , Henry Royet< no role > & John Ellis< 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 Margaret Flemming< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That on the ninth day of October in
the Year aforesaid the said Margaret Flemming< no role > was found Drowned
and suffocated in a certain Ditch near the Water Works Bridge in
the said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, that no marks of Violence appeared on her Body,
and that the said Margaret Flemming Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune fell into the said Ditch and in the water therein was
then and there suffocated and Drowned, And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Margaret Flemming
in manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and
by Misfortune came to her Death and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said William Carpenter< 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

Wm Carpenter [mark] Foreman