City and LIberty
of
Westminster }

Informations of Witnesses taken
this 5th. day of July 1796 in the Parish of St.
Margaret Westminster at the House of
Edward Carr< no role > the Sign of the Fox at
Knights bridge before Anthony Gell< no role >
his Magisty's Coroner for the said City
and Liberty touching the death of
Joseph Gwin< no role > then and there lying
dead as follow,
To Wit

Thomas Clarke< no role > Apprentice to the said late Joseph
Gwin< no role > No. 110 in Long Acre Coach-Printer being
sworn deporeth that about seven o'Clock on Sunday
morning last (the 3d. of July Instant) the deceased
and this Deponent went from his house in Long
Acre to the [..] Serpentine River in Hyde Park
to bath which they had frequently done before
and they both swam across the Serpentine River
and as they were returning across again the deced
said he felt himself tired and having turned to
swim on his Back his head went under Water
which [..] almost suffocated him
and he put his hands out of the Water two or three
times, and then sunk quite under the Water and never