City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at Knightsbridge in the Parish of St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of July in the Eleventh 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
Samuel Davies< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Andrews< no role > , John Allen< no role > , William Flowers< no role > , James Mc. Intosh< no role > , Thomas Rider< no role > ,
John Carter< no role > , Edward Bailey< no role > , James Jobbins< no role > , Joseph Swain< no role > , William Stradling< no role > ,
Richard Beedle< no role > and Henry Beauchamp< 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 Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Samuel Davies< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Samuel Davies< no role > on the Fourteenth
day of July in the Year aforesaid, going in the Serpentine River in
Hyde Park in the Liberty and County aforesaid, there to bath himself
It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune, he the
said Samuel Davies< no role > was in the Waters of the said River then and there
suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he
the said Samuel Davies< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Samuel Davies< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally
Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death, and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas
Andrews< 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 first above written.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos. Andrews< no role >
Foreman}