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. Margaret in the City of Westminster ,
within the Liberty of the Dean & Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St.
Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of February
in the Sixth 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 & Liberty, on view of the Body of
a Woman Unknown then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of William Green< no role >
Januar Milner< no role > , William Sodgrove< no role > , Thomas Read< no role > , Charles Spikes< no role > , John Myers< no role > , William
Gladell< no role > , John Wilkes< no role > , Renard Hadley< no role > , Henry Allebone< no role > , Samuel Bass< no role > , John Gibbs< no role > , and Edward Chandler< no role > ,
Good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly
Sworn & Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how, and by what means
the said Woman UnknownCame to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That
the said Woman Unknown on the Twentieth day of February in the Year aforesaid
was found Drowned and Suffocated in a certain River called the Serpentine River
in Hyde Park , in the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County
aforesaid, That the said Woman Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing
on her Body, but how or by what Means she became Drowned and Suffocated
no Evidence thereof doth appear to the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner, as the said William Green< 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 Richard< no role > Coroner

Wm Green< no role > Foreman