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 Anne within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Third day of December in the fourth 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 James Cook< no role > then and there
lying Dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Hatton< no role > , Richard Grant< no role > , Joseph Palmer< no role > , William Smith< no role > ,
Robert Blake< no role > , Daniel Paillet< no role > , Richard Bolt< no role > , Ralph Fossey< no role > , Edward Smith< no role > , Nicholas
Edwards< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , John Allison< no role > , Thomas Davies< no role > , John Jones< no role > , Stephen
Larche< no role > , Thomas Nethersole< no role > and Moses Wilson< no role > , good and Lawfull 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 James Cook< no role > came to his Death do upon
their Oath say, That the said James Cook< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but Lunatick and distracted, on the Second day of December in the year aforesaid at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Linnen
Handkerchief around a Bed Post, at the fect of the Bed, in the Lodging Room or Apartment
of him the said James Cook< no role > , in the Dwelling House of Anthony Cook< no role > , Father of the said
James Cook< no role > , situate and being in King Street 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 James Cook< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said James Cook< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatick
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Hatton< no role > 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 above written.

Tho Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos. Hatton< no role > [mark] Foreman