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 Saint 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 Twentieth day of June in the twenty fifth
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 John Hayes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
William Taylor< no role > , John Blundell< no role > , John Boyd< no role >
Colin Mc Kensey< no role > , William Burnet< no role > , Thomas Rowles< no role > , Valentine
Nowland< no role > , Adam Gregory< no role > , Edward Wilson< no role > , Adam Roberts< no role > , John
Pearce< no role > & John Mattiner< 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 said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Hayes< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said John Hayes< no role > on the
Nineteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid going into the River
at Chelsea Bridge in the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and
County aforesaid there to bath himself. It so happened that
accidentally Casuallly and By misfortune. He the said John
Hayes< no role > was in the Water of the said River then and there
Suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and drowning
He the said John Hayes< no role > then and there dyed. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
John Hayes< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally
casually and by Misfortune came by his Death, and not otherwise.

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the
said William Taylor< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf
of himself and the Rest of his Fellows, in their Prensence;
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the
Day Year and Place above written

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Wm Tayler [mark] Foreman