Westminster
City and Liberty
in the County of Middx}
to wit
An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of St. James in the Liberty of
Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster
the Eleventh day
of February in the Second 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 fath, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and
Sixty two
. Before
George Cleeter< no role >
Deputy to
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
James Hindes< no role >
then and there lying Dead by the Oaths of
John Price< no role >
,
Thomas Love< no role >
Thomas Wilson< no role >
,
Robert Millar< no role >
,
John Beckett< no role >
John Mace< no role >
,
Michael Thackwaite< no role >
,
John
Kimpson< no role >
,
John Davis< no role >
,
Clement Edus< no role >
James Mackey< no role >
Thomas William< no role >
,
Terry Bunn< no role >
,
Martin Salhald< no role >
, and
George Eves< 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
James Hindes< no role >
came to his Death say upon their Oaths. That
the said
James Hindes< no role >
not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and Distracted on the
Ninth day of February Instant in the Year aforesaid in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain
Silk Handkerchief unto an Iron
[..] fastned in the Wainscot in the Lodging from or Apartment of him the said
James Hindes< no role >
situate in Old Crane Yard in Leicester Street
in the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid
and the other end thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang
suffocate and strangle himself of women said Hanging Suffocation and strangling he the said
James Hindes< no role >
then
and there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid or say that the said
James Hindes< no role >
, not
being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and Destracted in manner and by the means
aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said
George Cleeter< no role >
for the said
John Feary< no role >
Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the Day Year
and at the Place abovementioned
Geo Cleeter< no role >
for John Feary< no role >
Coroner
John Price< no role >
Foreman