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 George Hanover Square within the
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty first day of December in the SixthYear 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
Swain Jenkins< no role > , then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Sykes< no role > , Thomas Moon< no role >
James Beckett< no role > , Samuel Platt< no role > , Edward March< no role > , William Green< no role > , Thomas Weaver< no role > William Gibson< no role >
James Martin< no role > , Morris Rice< no role > , Nicholas Marvill< no role > Edward Jay< no role > , William Minnis< no role > , and Tall Scott< 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 Swain Jenkins< no role > Came to his Death do upon their
Oath says, That the said Swain Jenkins, laboring under a grievous Disease of Body to Wit,
a Fever, and by reason of the Violence of the said Disease, being delirious and out of his Mind,
on the Twentieth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the dwelling House of Thomas Matthews< no role >
Esquire situate and being in Dean Street in the Parish aforesaid Within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, a Certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet which he the said
Swain Jenkins then and there had and here in his right Hand [..] and against the Rights
side of the Head of him the said Swain Jenkins so delirious and out of his Mind as
aforesaid, did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Swain
Jenkins did then and there give unto himself so delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid,
with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of
the Gunpowder aforesaid, one mortal Wound in and through the Head of him the said
Swain Jenkins, of which said Mortal Wound he the said Swain Jenkins then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Swain Jenkins, being delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid by reason of the
Fever aforesaid, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Sykes< 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 > [mark] Coroner

John Sykes< no role > [mark] Foreman