City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit.

An Inquisition Indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of June in the Third
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George that Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman ,Coroner of
our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of Joseph Parsons< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Downes< no role > , Thomas Welch< no role > , William Ackley< no role > , Simon
Croutsley< no role > , James Harbell< no role > , Joseph Stevenson< no role > , John Webb< no role > , Terence Burne< no role > , Peter Damot< no role > , Anthony
Hall< no role > , Richard Price< no role > , William Jacklin< no role > , Joseph Moggs< no role > , Thomas Walton< no role > and William Ingman< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged
to inquire for Our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means the said Joseph Parsons< no role >
came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Parsons< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the fourteenth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord fastened over the Door in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him
the said Joseph Parsons< no role > in the dwelling House of Mr. Aston situate in the said Parish Liberty and County, 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 which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling, he the said Joseph Parsons< no role > then and there Died, And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph Parsons< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding, but lunatic
and distracted, in manner and by the means aforesaid, did kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said Thomas Downes< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Thos. DownesForeman