London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is
to say) at the Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the first day of May in the thirty seventhsixthyear 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 Joseph Railton< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of William Wright< no role > , Robert Herring< no role > , John Mallam< no role > , Charles Bonner< no role > , Harvey Walklate
Mortimer< no role > , Joseph Brassbridge< no role > , Robert Waithman< no role > , Benjamin Varley< no role > , Robert Tangate< no role > ,
John Curtis< no role > , Thomas Morton< no role > , Thomas Reeves< no role > , William Lambert< no role > , Henry James< no role > , George
Bowen,< no role > John Tyce< no role > , Nathaniel Stock< no role > , and John Willis< 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 Joseph
Railton< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Joseph Railton< no role > on
the thirtieth day of April in the year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
a certain pistol of the value of six pence loaded with gunpowder and leaden bullet
which he the said Joseph Railton< no role > in his right hand then and there had and held
to at and against the head of himself the said Joseph Railton< no role > did then and there shoot
off and discharge giving to himself then and there with the said leaden bullet so shot
off and discharged from the said pistol by force of the gunpowder aforesaid one mortal
wound in and upon the said head of him the said Joseph Railton< no role > of the width of half an
inch and of the depth of five inches of which said mortal wound he the said Joseph
Railton< no role > did then and there die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said Joseph Railton< 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 Wright< 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 abovewritten.

Wm Wright< no role >