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 Seventh day of April in the thirty first
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 Cheetham< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Richard Sweet< no role > , Sadler Smith< no role > , Thomas Wigfield< no role >
James Newton< no role > , John Bristow< no role > Erasmus Gmnd< no role > , John Harding< no role >
James Taylor< no role > , William George< no role > , Matthew Musgrave< no role > , Francis Daniel< no role >
Edward Akeman< no role > James Sherley< no role > and Henry List< 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 James Cheetham< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said James Cheetham< no role > not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatick and
distracted on the twenty sixth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the said
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
(to wit) into the Serpentine River in Hyde Park there did cast and throw
himself by means of which said Casting and throwing he the said James
Cheetham< no role > in the Water of the said River was then and there suffocated
and drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said James
Cheetham< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said James Cheetham< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatick and distracted in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid did hill himself

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Richard Sweet< 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. Sweet< no role > [mark] Foreman