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 Twentieth 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 William Buckmise then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of William Pixley< no role > , John Lard< no role > , John Ward< no role > , John
Holland< no role > , Robert Clark< no role > , Thomas Granna< no role > , Thomas Storer< no role >
Martin Vanbulchell< no role > , William Bogger< no role > , Henry Kent< no role > , James
Benzie< no role > and John Bulley< 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 William Buckmire< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Buckmire
on the Seventeenth 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 William Buckmire then and there
in the Water of the said River was suffocated and drowned of which
said Suffocation and drowning he the said William Buckmire then and
there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said William Buckmire 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 William Pixley< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the hehalf
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
William Pixley< no role > Foreman