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

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint
Margaret in the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St.
Peter at Westminster the fourth day of August in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith, and
so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty . Before John Feary< no role >
Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of Westminster aforesaid. Upon a View
of the Body of Thomas Grant< no role > then and there lying Dead by the Oaths of John Parish< no role > Joseph
Bailis< no role > , John Wilkinson< no role > , David Davidson< no role > , George Newton< no role > , William Vaughan< no role > , Christopher, Day< no role >
John Sutherland< no role > , Ernest Leslie< no role > , John Parbury< no role > , James Young< no role > , James Price< no role > , James Clayton< no role > , and
Samuel Young< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our
Sovereign Lord the King how when where and in what manner the said Thomas Grant< no role > came to his
Death say upon their Oaths. That on Thursday the thirty first day of July last the said Thomas Grant< no role >
being alone in his lodging Room at the House of Thomas Bere< no role > the Kings Arms Suttling House in Scotland
Yard within the Verge of His Majesty's Palace of Whitehall and not being of Sound Mind, Memory and
Understanding but Lunatick and Distracted a certain Pistol leaden with Gunpowder and a leader
Bullet into his hand did take and placing the same at and against the fore past of the head of him
the said Thomas Grant< no role > then and there did Discharge and shoot off and thereby by force of the said
Gunpowder the said Leader Bullet being thereby Discharged did give unto himself one Mortal wound
in the head of which said Mortal wound he the said Thomas Grant< no role > in the Westminster Hospital
Infirmary in James Street in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster in the Liberty and County
aforesaid from the said thirty first day of July last did languish and languishing did Live untill the
third day of this Instant August and then Died. And so the said Jurors upon their Oaths aforesaid do say
that the said Thomas Grant< no role > the said third day of August Instant in the Parish aforesaid in the
Liberty and County aforesaid by the cause and means aforesaid by his Death came and not otherwise. In
Witness whereof as well the sd. Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this
Inquisition put their hands and Seals the day year and at the Place abovesaid

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

J. R. Parishs Foreman