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 Martin in the Fieldswithin the Liberty of
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the
County of Middlesex the Twenty fifth day of June in the Sixth 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 > Gentlemn
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the
Body of Joseph Burgaine< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Langfords< no role >
James Marriot< no role > , John Heather< no role > , Robert Grant< no role > , Robert Bagnall< no role > , Nathaniel Stanton< no role > ,
Joseph Wingfield< no role > , Thomas Holden< no role > , William Maxoin< no role > , Charles Lyon< no role > , William
Croft< no role > , Robert Durnford< no role > , John Birch< no role > , Joseph Firmstone< no role > and Thomas Dunkley< no role > ,
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly Chosen, who being then and there
Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when, how, and by what
means the said Joseph BurgaineCome to his Death do upon their Oath
say, That the said Joseph Burgaine, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty fourth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Silk Hand kerchief unto the
back of a Great Chair, in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said Joseph Burgaine
in the Dwelling House of Thomas Ansell< no role > , situate and being 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 hand suffocate, and strange himself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling he
the said Joseph Burgaine then and there died. And so the Jurors, aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Joseph Burgaine, 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 John Langford< 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 Langford< no role > Forman