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 Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster
in the County of Middlesex
, the
Fifth Day of April in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
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 Woman unknown then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Morgan< no role >
Peter Horn< no role >
,
Edward Jones< no role >
,
John Abbot< no role >
,
John Surby< no role >
,
Robert Pickden< no role >
James Dellemore< no role >
John Monday< no role >
,
Thomas
Belchamber< no role >
,
James Nicholson< no role >
,
John Dobins< no role >
,
George Ragsdale< no role >
&
James Stevens< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
Chosen who being then and there Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, who
how, and by what Means the said Woman Unknown-came to her Death, do upon
their Oath say, That the said Woman Unknown on the Fourth day of April in the Year
aforesaid, was found Drowned and Suffocated in the River in Hyde Park
, to Wit, at a
certain Place called the Watter Works, situate and being in the Parish aforesaid within
the Liberty and County aforesaid, That no Marks of Violence appeared on the Body of
the said Woman Unknown, but how or by what Means the said Woman UnKnown
became Drowned and Suffocated, no Evidence thereof doth appear to the Jurors.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
, as the said Thomas Morgan< no role >
Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in br [..]
presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and
Place first above written
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroners
Thos: Morgan Foreman