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 with the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of July in the Third
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God go Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner
of our sard Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of he Body of a Man Unknown
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Richard Neagle< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > , William Singler< no role >
John White< no role > , William Mansfield< no role > , John Baker< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , John Owens< no role > , John Nevil< no role > , Nathaniel Howell< no role > ,
Thomas Rogers< no role > , James Payn< no role > , Francis Hassell< no role > , Robert Wallerton< no role > , Benjamin Hitchcock< no role > , Richard Sill< no role > , and John Ramsey< no role > ,
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly 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
Unknowncame to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That on the Sixth day of July in
the Year aforesaid, the said Man Unknown was found dead and floating in a certain
Water called the Serpentine River, in the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, That the said Man Unknown had no Marks of Violence appearing on his
Body, but how or by what Means the said Man Unknown came to his Death, no
Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Richard Neagle< 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 .

Richd. Neagle< no role > Foreman