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 Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of
Octoberin 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 Thomas Peirce< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Daniel
Hancock< no role > , Morris Rice< no role > , William Saunders< no role > , William Brattle< no role > , Joseph Follett< no role > , Richard Collington< no role >
Samuel Smallman< no role > , John Tasker< no role > , Thomas Marshall< no role > , Joseph Frightler< no role > , Thomas Woodbridge< no role >
John Pratt< no role > , and Christopher Nettleton< 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 Thomas Peirce< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say, That
the said Thomas Peirce< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatick and
distracted, on the Nineteenth day of October in the Year aforesaid, out of and through a certain
Garret Window in the dwelling House of Thomas Thornhill< no role > Esquire situate and being in Berkley
Square in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, did cast and throw
himself, into the back Yard adjoyning to the said House, which said Yard is Paved with Stone
thereby then and there giving unto himself one mortal Wound and Fracture, in and
upon the right side of the Head of him the said Thomas Peirce< no role > , of which said mortal Wound
and Fracture, he the said Thomas Peirce< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Thomas Peirce< 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 Daniel Hancock< 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

Danl. Hancock Foreman