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 Eleventh day of August in the twenty fifth
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 Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Charles Dymock< no role > , Francis Langford< no role > John Watson< no role >
Richard Neall< no role > , John Wansall< no role > , James Andrews< no role > , Richard
Clark< no role > John Baker< no role > , Peter Osbourn< no role > Daniel Burning< no role > , John
Sherwood< no role > , and John Morland< 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 Man unknown came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man unknown
on the tenth day of August, in the Year aforesaid, was
found drowned, and suffocated, in the Serpentine River ,
and County aforesaid. That the said Man unknown had
no marks of Violence appearing on his Body, But how or
by what means he became drowned and Suffocated, no
Evidence thereof, doth appear to the Jurors. In Witness
whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Charles Dimmock< 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 above-
written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Chas. Dimmock [mark] Foreman