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 St, 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 Seventeenth day of August 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 John Middlemas< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Henry Hack< no role > , Robert Hammond< no role > , William Chamber< no role >
Thomas Dodswell< no role > , Thomas Dickson< no role > , John Parke< no role > , Joseph Winder< no role >
John Ward< no role > , Edward Davies< no role > , John William< no role > , William Hent< no role > Richard
Garmont< no role > , John Bell< no role > And Robert Clarke< 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 John Middlemas came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Middlemas on the
Fourteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid going into the Serpentine River in [..]
Hyde Park there to bathe himself, It so happened that Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune the said John Middlemas< 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 John Middlemas then
and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oat aforesaid
do say that the said John Middlemas< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to
his Death and not otherwise

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 > Coroner
Henry Slack< no role > Foreman