City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at Knightsbridge in the Parish of Saint Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the second day of August 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 John Manson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Redden< no role > , Robert Jackson< no role > , Edward Whitaker< no role >
William Day< no role > , George Stone< no role > , John Vaughan< no role > , John Worthy< no role > ,
Benjamin Thompson< no role > , James Nicholas< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > , Thomas
Bullen< no role > and James Pagan< 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 Mason< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Mason< no role > on the
thirty first day of July in the Year aforesaid going into the
Serpentine River in Hyde Park at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid there to Bathe himself
It so happened that Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune
he the said John Mason< 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 Mason< no role >
then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Mason< no role > in
manner and by the means aforesaid Accidentally Casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James
Redden< 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 > [mark] Coroner

James Redden< no role > [mark] Foreman