City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Tenth day
of April 1788 at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty
of Westminster in the County of
Middlesex upon on Inquisition
lying Dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County

James Brian< no role > of Kensington Gardener on
his Oath saith that this Morning about
twenty Minutes after five o'Clock Dept. was
coming through Hyde Park towards London
when he saw some thing Black upon the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park on that
side of the River next to Kensington and
about four hundred Yards from Kensington
Gardens says that he went to the side of
the River and threw in some Clods in order
to move if, but at did not move it nor
could Deponent say whether it was the Body
of a Man Drowned or not Says that he same
a Gentleman in a Boat upon he Serpentine
River Fishing and told him that he saw
something in the River and could not tall
whether they were a Man's Cloaths or not
upon which the Gentleman , Dr. Harrison
and his Servant Rowed towards it, and
Dr. Harrison, moved this that around,
which side Dept. think hat a Person was
Drowned Says that he went into the Boat
and assisted to left the Deced, into the Boat
and to row the Boat to the Shore and to
to take the Deced to the Shore in the Parish
of st. George Hanover Square , being that side of
the River next Grosvenor Gate Says that the
Deced was Drowned but did not appear to
have been long Drowned, Says that the Deced
was put into a Shall in the Boat house in
the Park, and Deced was soon after caused
away