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 St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Twenty fourth day of July 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 > Gentleman, Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and
Liberty, On View of the Body of Harbottle Luckyn< no role > Esquire then and there lying Dead, upon the
Oath of Benjamin Gee< no role > , John Dorman< no role > , Nicholas Sanders< no role > William Sherwin< no role > , Nathaniel Leftwich< no role > , William
Barber< no role > , Thomas Stirrup< no role > , Stephen Joyce< no role > , Paul Callard< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > James Porter< no role > , Alexander Taylor< no role > ,
William Hall< no role > , Thomas Greening< no role > , Daniel Reymey< no role > , John Goodacre< no role > , Christopher Bayley< no role > , Richard
Mumbey< no role > , Henry Otley< no role > and James Fregent< no role > , good and lawfull 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 Harbottle Luckyn< no role > came to his Death, do upon their
Oath say, That the said Harbottle Luckyn, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted, on the said Twenty fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the
said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a
certain piece of small Cord unto a Wooden Rail at the Feet of the Bed, in the Lodging Room of
the said Harbottle Luckyn, in the Dwelling House of him the said Harbottle Luckyn, situate
and being in Leicester Square , 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
Harbottle Luckyn then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Harbottle Luckyn, 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 Benjamin Gee< 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
abovewritten

Thos Prickard< no role > Coroner .
Benjn Gee< no role > Foreman