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 Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the
Twenty third day of September 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 John Brown< no role > Clerk Doctor in Divinity then and there
lying dead, upon the Oath of Samuel Mattayer< no role > , Robert Bethell< no role > , Francis Wanion< no role > , Thomas Harrache< no role > William
Scarborough< no role > , Thomas Daw< no role > , Henry Starr< no role > Benjamin Frear< no role > , James Darbyshire< no role > George Smith< no role > , James Foy< no role > , John Webster< no role > , John
Hamshaw< no role > , Evan Morris< no role > , Thomas Burnby< no role > and William Wilman< 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 John Brown< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said John Brown< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the said Twenty third day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of
with a certain Razer made of Iron and Steel, which he the Neck of him the said John
Brown< no role > , did then and there strike, stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto
him faith the Bagan aforesaid in and upon the Right side of the back of him [..] John
Brown< no role > , one mortal Wound, of the Length of one Inch, and of the Depth of one Inch, of which
said mortal Wound he the said John Brown< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Brown< 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 Samuel Mettayer< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on 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

Saml. Mettayer Foreman