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 St. 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 fourth day of June in the Third
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 George Gentil< no role > , Daniel Keepe< no role > , Robert Corbert< no role > ,
John Worrall< no role > , William Spenceley< no role > , Tobias Burch< no role > , John Salt< no role > , Edward Chamins< no role > ,
Richard Gant< no role > , Thomas Bond< no role > , William Toon< no role > , and Francis White< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duty chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and Charged
to inquire for our said Lord, the King, when, how, and by what Means the said Man Unknown
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man Unknown, not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the Third day of June in the Year
aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, to Wit, into the
River Thames at a certain Place called the Neat Houses did cast and throw himself, by Means of
which said casting and throwing He the said Man Unknown in the Waters of the said River, was
then and there Suffocated and Drowned, Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said
Man Unknown then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Man Unknown, not being of sound Mind memory and
Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, did drown and kill Himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said George Gentil Foreman of the said Jurors, on 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

Thos Prickard< no role > Coroner .

George Gentil< no role > Foreman