London

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the Parish of Christ Church in the Ward of Farringdon within in London
aforesaid on the fifteenth day of February in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third [..] King of Great Britain 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 John Parish< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Taylor< no role >
John Murcott< no role > John Eastwick< no role > Edward Prockter< no role > Charles Nicolay< no role > William Bennett< no role > William
Freanch Hugh Williams< no role > John Phillips< no role > Daniel Brauniss< no role > John Crispe< no role > James Quin< no role >
William Elliott< no role > Thomas Foster< no role > Leonard Thompson< no role > Nathaniel Poole< no role > James Suffolk Thomas
Tiffin Francis Alchin Joseph Curtis< no role > and Thomas Stone< no role > 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 John
Parish came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Parish< no role > not being of
sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the fourteenth
day of February in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid a certain pistol of the value of twelve pence loaded with gunpowder and [..]
leaden bullets which he the said John Parish< no role > in his right hand then and there had and
held to at and against the head of himself the said John Parish< no role > did then and there shoot
off and discharge giving to himself then and there with the leaden bullets aforesaid
so shot off and discharged from the said Pistol by force of the gunpowder aforesaid
one mortal wound in and through the head of him the said John Parish< no role > of which said
mortal wound he the said John Parish< no role > did then and there instantly dieAnd so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Parish< no role > not being of
sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did shoot and
kill himselfIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William
Taylor< 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 abovewritten.

Wm. Tayler< no role > [mark]