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 Ninth day of August in the Sixteenth 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, name unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Aslitt< no role > , David Stoddard< no role > , William Caselak< no role > , William Palmer< no role > , John Ballard< no role > , William Campbell< no role > ,
John Bonnell< no role > , James Norris< no role > , George Mc, Lagan< no role > , James Snowden< no role > , Michael Clark< no role > , and
Slephen Bowman< no role > . good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Woman came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Woman not being of Sound Mind Momery
and Understanding, but lunatick and Distracted, on the Eighth day of August or some few Days before Days in the
Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid in a certain Water called the Bason
in Hyde Park there situate, there did Cast and there herself by means of which said Casting and
Throwing she the said Woman in the water of the said Bason was then and there suffocated and
Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Woman then and there instantly Died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Woman manner and
by the means aforesaid not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and Distracted
did drown and kill herself. 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 Place first abovementioned.

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Richd. Aslitt< no role > Foreman