London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the ward of Portsoken in London aforesaid
on the twenty fifth day of April in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the third by the race 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 Maxwell Maysmith< no role > now
here lying dead by the oath of William Jackson< no role > Benjamin Burton< no role > Richard Grace< no role > George
Dollitt Edward Buttenshaw John Benford Anthony Turdall< no role > John Paterson< no role > Robert Simple< no role >
William Pratt< no role > Robert Browne< no role > William Hedgman< no role > William Lee< no role > George Dinsdale< no role > John
Greene Thomas Mossell< no role > and Isaac Lermitte good and lawful men of the City of London
aforesaid 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 Maxwell Maysmith< no role > came
to his death say upon their Oath that the said Maxwell Maysmith< no role > not being of sound
mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty fourth day of April
in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid a certain
pistol of the value of twelve pence loaded with Gunpowder and divers leader shot which he
the said Maxwell Naysmith< no role > in his night hand had and held to at and against the head of
him the said Maxwell Naysmith< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge giving to
himself then and there with the leaden shot aforesaid so shot off and discharged from the said
Pistol by force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the head of him the said
Maxwell Naysmith< no role > of the width of two inches and of the depth of four inches of which said
mortal wound he the said Maxwell Naysmith< no role > did then and there instantly die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Maxwell Naysmith< 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 William Jackson< no role > the
foreman of the said Jurors on 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 first above written

Wm Jackson< no role > Foreman