London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Bridget alias Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the twentieth day of February in the thirty third 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our
said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of
James Buttar nowhere lying dead by the Oath of Benjamin Barrett< no role > Thomas Sabine< no role > John
Brinkworth Thomas< no role > Glover William Green< no role > Samuel Dooks< no role > James Brett< no role > Elley Bottomley< no role >
John Bollard< no role > Peter Jackson< no role > Benjamin Hook< no role > John Miller< no role > Justus Hudson< no role > and James Hill< no role >
good and lawful men of the City of London who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said James
Buttar came to his death say upon their Oath that the said James Buttar on the
seventeenth day of February in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid a
certain Pistol of the value of twelve pence loaded with Gun powder and a leaden bullett
which he the said James Buttar in his right hand then and there had and held to
at and against the right side of the head of him the said James Buttar did then and
there shoot off and discharge giving to himself then and there with the leaden bullett
aforesaid so shot off and discharged from the said Pistol by force of the Gunpowder aforesaid
one mortal woundof the valuein and upon the right side of the head of him the said
James Buttar< no role > of the length of one Inch and the Depth of three Inches of which said
Mortal wound he the said James Buttarr< no role > did then and there instantly die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said James Buttar< no role > [..]
not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
did shoot and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Benjamin Barnett< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of
his follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day
year and place first above written.

Benjn. Barrett< no role > [mark] Foreman