City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex }

Informations of Witness taken this tenth
day of May 1764 at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex , on an Inquisition
taken on View of the Body of James Longmire< no role >
lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty & County

Robert Bean< no role > of the Second Troop of Life Guards on his Oath
saith, That on Tuesday last between Nine and ten O'Clock in the
Evening Deponent and Robert Snelson< no role > went with James
Longmire< no role > the Deced, into Hyde Park , Deponent intending to
Swim, Says that Deced undressed himself and went into the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park in the Parish of St George
Hanover Square , and swam across the said River, Deponent
and Mr. Snelson staying beg the Clothes, Says that Deced came
back into the Middle of the River, and there said to Dept.
that he had got hold of a Cork upon which Deponent Desired
that he would swim out, it being Dark, and Deponent
was not able to discover the Deced any longer, Says that
he did not hear the Deced speak afterwards, tho he (Depont)
and Mr. Snelson called to Deced several times and staid
near the Waterside untill Eleven O'Clock, but could have
no Account of him, Says that they then Concluded that the
Deced was Drowned and come home to Acquaint his Friends
therewith Depont. says that he and several Other Persons
went again to the Water side and brought the Deced's Clothes
to his Lodgings in Green Street, Says that he went
Yesterday Morning with others to the River side to see
for the Deced, and that one Charles Collington< no role > went into the
Water and discovered the Deced lying Dead therein, says
that the Deced was drawn to the Shore in the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square aforesaid, and that he was their
Dead, Says that there was no Person with Deced in the River
when Deced was Swimming

Robert Beane< no role >

George Robinson< no role > belonging to the Second Troop of Life Guards
on his Oath saith, that he was acquainted on Tuesday Night
last that the Deced was Drowned in the Serpentine River
in Hyde Park , Says that the next Morning Deponent and
other Persons went to the River side to look for Deced, and
that