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 Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Third day of August in the Third
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 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 William Corry< no role > Gent, then and
there lying Dead upon the Oath of Francis Blackburn< no role > , Joseph Wilson< no role > , Edward Green< no role > John Tubb< no role > , Elisha
Dobree< no role > , Henry Rogers< no role > , George Garrard< no role > , Joseph Hedge< no role > , John Freeman< no role > , Samuel Barker< no role > , John
Phillips< no role > , James Kennedy< no role > , Joseph Parsloe< no role > , Stephen Horncastle< no role > , James Wright< no role > , Charles Clarke< no role >
and Jesse Harwood< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, who being then and there duly
Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, where, how, and by what means the said
William Corry< no role > came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William Corry< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the Second day
of August in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
a certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet, which he the said William
Corry< no role > then and there had and held in his right hand, to and against the Head of him the said William
Corry< no role > , did then and there shoot off an discharge, by Means whereof he the said William Corry< no role > did then and
there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and short out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the
force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, in and upon the top of the Head of him the said William Corry< no role > one
Mortal Wound, of which said Mortal Wound he the said William Corry< no role > then and there instantly Died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said William Corry< 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 Francis Blackburn< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coronor
Fran: Blackburn< no role > [mark] Foreman