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Information of Witnesses taken this
25th. day of April 1793 in at the Parish of Saint
George Hanover Square at the House of
Mr. Bryan the Sign of the Sworn in
Upper Mount Street before Anthony Gell< no role >
his Majesty's Coroner for the City and
Liberty aforesaid touching the Death
of Richard Lanham< no role > then and there lying
dead, as follow.

Michael Jones< no role > Constable of Hyde Park being
sworn smith that about one o'Clock yesterday
noon (the 24th. instant) a Person told him then
appeared to be other Body of a man drowned in the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish
of St. George Hanover Square at the hard of the
two other Persons took the Boat and got the
Body of the deceased out of the River into the
Boat and put it into the Boat house, and that
it appeared to have been a long time in the River
being in a very putrid Stall, whereupon this
Deponent went to Mr. Storer an Undertaken in
Upper Mount Street Grosvenor Square , who not
three men with a Shall to the Boat house, to whom