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
Tenth Day of Mayin the fourth 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 James Longmire< no role > then and there lying
Dead, upon the Oath of John Cockerill< no role > , Robert Esam< no role > , William Allsworth< no role > , James Taylor< no role > , William King< no role >
Edward Britain< no role > , William Granger< no role > , John Hyatt< no role > , Samuel Turner< no role > , Richard Coultart< no role > William Ingman< no role > ,
John Hoydon< no role > , William Adamson< no role > and William Tustain< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
Chosen who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the
King when how and by what Means the said James Longmire came to his Death do
upon their Oath say, That the said James Longmire on the Eighth day of May in the
Year aforesaid, going into a certain River called the Serpentine River in Hyde Park , in
the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to bath himself; It so
happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune he the said James Longmire
was in the Waters of the said River then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said
Suffocation and Drowning he the said James Longmire then and there instantly Died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said James
Longmire 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 John Cockerill< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Cockerill< no role > Foreman