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 John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth day August in the twenty first 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
William Parsons< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Harry
Loader< no role > , Charles Burgh< no role > , Thomas Bennet< no role > , George Tyler< no role > ,
Rice Evans< no role > , Robert Lean< no role > , Stephen Cant< no role > , Joseph Salter< no role > ,
Nicolas Merrifield< no role > , Alexander Brook< no role > , James Atherton< no role > , Edmund.
Goddard< no role > , James Ansell< no role > & George Dyke< 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 William Parsons< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said William Parsons< no role > , not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, into
the River Thomas there did cast and throw himself, by Means
of which said lasting and Throwing he the said William
Parsons< no role > in the Waters of the said River was then and there
Suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said William Parsons< no role > then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
Say, that the said William Parsons< no role > in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted did drown and
kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner,
as the said Harry Loader 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Harry Loader Foreman