City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex

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 Thirt [..]
day of November in the Fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the
Grace of God of Great Britain Frances and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and [..]
forth before Thomas Prichard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the King for the said
City and Liberty. Or View of the Body of Richard Gotshal< no role > then and there lying Dead upon the Oath
of John Lambert< no role > , Richard Johnson< no role > , John Grimshaw< no role > , George Wood< no role > , Thomas Swardill< no role > , John Davis< no role > John
Forster< no role > , John Read< no role > , Moses Hill< no role > Richard Walker< no role > Henry Whealing< no role > Henry Drury< no role > William Collins< no role > ,
Edmund Phillips< no role > , John Aberdeen< no role > Thomas Davis< no role > Thomas Pugh< no role > Christopher Smith< no role > Thomas Lee< no role > , John Gravatt< no role > ,
John Webster< no role > and Thomas Starsaker< 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 Richard Gotshal came to his Death do upon
their Oath say, That the said Richard Getshal not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty ninth day of November in the Year
aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain
piece of small Cord over a Spitrack fastenedtot he Chimney in the Lodging Room
or Apartment of him the said Richard Gotshal in the dwelling Horse of John Woodroff situate
and being in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other End thereof about his own
Neck, did six, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate, and strangle
himself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling, he the said Richard Gotshal
then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that
the said Richard Gotshal, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatic
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill himself

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner , as the said John Lambert< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said 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 > Coroner .

John Lambert< no role > Foreman