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

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Knightsbridge in the Parish of Saint Margaret
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 January in the Fifteenth 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
a Woman Unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Nathan
Smith< no role > , Richard Beedle< no role > , Thomas Ferguson< no role > , Barny Flynn< no role > , John Sadler< no role > , John
Dobinson< no role > , Henry Randall< no role > , Richard Tomkins< no role > , Henry List< no role > . Thomas Andrews< no role > ,
John Jobbins< no role > and John Nunnery< 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 Woman Unknown came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said Woman Unknown on the
Thirty first day of December in the said Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's
Reign, being in Hyde Park in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, And that it so happened that the said
Woman Unknown then and there Accidentally Casually and by
Misfortune fell into a certain Pond, and in the Waters thereof was
then and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and
Drowning she the said Woman unknown then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Woman unknown in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to her death, and
not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Nathan Smith< 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

Nathan Smith< no role > Foreman