City and Liberty
of Westminster
,
In the County of
Middlesex
.}
to wit,
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Mr. Bryan Sign of the Swan
in Upper Mount Street
Parish of St. George's Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
,
in the County of Middlesex
, the this tenth day of July 1793
in the thirty third
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
Anthony
Gell< no role >
, Esq
. Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of
George Pringle< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunder written and Seals
affixed
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
George Pringle< no role >
came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said
George Pringle< no role >
on the twelfth day of
July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid, to wit into
the Serpentine River
in Hyde Park
, there going to bathe himself. It so happened
that accidentally casually and by Misfortune be the said
George Pringle< no role >
was in
the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which
said suffocation and drowning he the said
George Pringle< no role >
then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid, do say,
that the said George Pringle 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 Jurors, came to this Inquisition at their hands and Seals the
day year and place first above written
Anthy Gell< no role >
Coroner
}
James Jones< no role >
Foreman
Thos Matthews< no role >
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John Ladley< no role >
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Danl. Carnley< no role >
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Jno Cave< no role >
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John Warcham< no role >
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George Cadby< no role >
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Randal Cadmary< no role >
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Saml. Shyth< no role >
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John Marshall< no role >
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Joseph Marton< no role >
Edwd. Rowlings< no role >
Chas. Etkins< no role >