City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

In 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 Twenty second day of June in the Fourteenth 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
Daniel Palmer Stokes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Mullins< no role > , Barnard Gregory< no role > , William Cooper< no role > , Henry Treadway< no role > , John Pearson< no role > , William
Thompson< no role > , John Thorn< no role > , Thomas Hodsdon< no role > , James Whalley< no role > , Henry Akin< no role > , Edward
Langbridge< no role > and James Jones< 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 Daniel Palmer Stokes came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Daniel Palmer Stokes on the
Seventh day of June in the Year aforesaid, into the Serpentine River
in Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid did go to Bath and Wash himself, And that the said
Daniel Palmer Stokes Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
in the Water of the said River was then and there Suffocated and
drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
Daniel Palmer Stokes then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said Daniel
Palmer Stokes, 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 Mullins< 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
John Mullins< no role > Foreman