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 twelfth day of April in the twenty eighth
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 Thomas Spiers< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Charles Dimmork< no role > , William Fryer< no role > , John
Robson< no role > , Francis Langford< no role > , John Moreland< no role >
John Lovett< no role > , Thomas Ballard< no role > , Joseph Wyld< no role > ,
Daniel Fryer< no role > , Charles Reeve< no role > Philip Gosnell< no role > Edward
Binns< no role > and Thomas Storer< 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 Thomas Spiers< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Thomas Spiers< no role > not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
Lunatick and Distracted on the Eleventh day of April in
the Year aforesaid into the Bason on Hyde Park in the said
Parish of Saint George Hanover Square within the Liberty and
County aforesaid did cast and throw himself by means of
which said Casting and throwing he the said Thomas
Spiers< no role > in the Water in the said Bason was then and there
suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said Thomas Spiers< no role > then and there Died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said Thomas Spiers< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted
in Manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Charles Dimmork< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Chas Dimmork< no role > Foreman