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 Third day of June in the Thirty first
Year of the Reign on 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 a Man unknown then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Richard Barnett< no role > , Alexander Apelgorth< no role > , Edward Clemson< no role >
James Finch< no role > , Joseph Follett< no role > , James Row< no role > , Thomas Ballard< no role >
William Reeves< no role > , John Holland< no role > , Robert Clark< no role > , Thomas Growne< no role >
William Bentley< no role > and Andrew Finwick< no role > good and lawful Men of the Said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire our Said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man unknown
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That on the said second day of June in the
Year aforesaid the said Man unknown was found drowned and
Suffocated in the Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the
said Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty
and County aforesaid That no Marks of Violence appeared in
the Body, but how or by what means the said Man unknown
became drowned and suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear
to the Jurors

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Richard Barnett< 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

Rd Barnett< no role > [mark] Foreman