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 Westmr. within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Second
Day of Januaryin the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
by th 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 Liberty, On
View of the Body of a Woman unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George King< no role > , John
Stanfield< no role > , Nathaniel Skeate< no role > , Josiah Dwight< no role > , John Hepworth< no role > , Robert Burn< no role > , James Wild< no role > , Charles Hare< no role >
John Doleman< no role > , James Taylor< no role > , Henry Callis< no role > and Benjamin Watson< no role > , good and lawfuul 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 Woman Unknowncame to her Death, do upon their Oath
say That the said Woman Unknown on the First day of January in the Year aforesaid
was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River Thames , near Westminster Bridge in
the said Parish of St. Margaret within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, that
no Marks of Violence appeared on the Body of the said Woman Unknown, but how or
by what means she became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth, appear
to the Jurors. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said George King< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf 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 first
above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

George King< no role > Foreman