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 Saint 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 Sixth day of August in the Thirteenth 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
Charles Stapleton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William Ovens< no role >
Timothy Quin< no role > , William Chandler< no role > , Henry Elvey< no role > , James Payn< no role > , James Simer< no role > , George Dibbs< no role >
John Burch< no role > , John Dawkins< no role > , Ezakiel Elliot< no role > , Richard Kemmery< no role > , George Burt< no role > , and Mark
Last< no role > 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 Charles Stapleton< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Charles Stapleton< no role > on the fifth day
of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
to wit at Hyde Park going into the Serpentine River there to Bath himself, it so
happened that accidentally casually by Misfortune he the said Charles Stapleton< 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 Charles Stapleton< no role > then and there instantly
Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Charles Stapleton< no role > 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 Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and
the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
Day Year and at the Place first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
William Ovens< no role > [mark] Foreman