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 St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty sixth 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 Joseph Harris< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Fisher< no role > , Peter Taylor< no role > , Samuel Leak< no role > , William Ridett< no role >
John Cook< no role > , Thomas Ballard< no role > , William Walker< no role > , John Parlby< no role > , William
Wrather< no role > , William Rawlings< no role > , Robert Robard< no role > , and Thomas Shanthster
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and were there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Joseph Harris< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Joseph Harris< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty fifth
day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid (to wit)
into a certain water called the Bason in Hyde Park there did last and throw himself
by Means of which said Casting and Throwing he the said Joseph Harris< no role > in the Waters of the
said Bason was then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said Joseph Harris< no role > then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid so say that the said Joseph Harris< no role > in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
and Distracted did Drown himself. In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the
Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thomas Tushes< no role > Foreman