City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to Wit.

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eight day of October in the Seventh 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 > , Gentle man,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Robert Doddington< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Baldey< no role > Stephen Joyce< no role > , John Kidd< no role > , William Gibson< no role > , James Duncan< no role > , William
Steadman< no role > , William Fitch< no role > , William Holmes< no role > , Samuel Hance< no role > , George Malkin< no role > , James
Hartley< no role > Jeremiah Freeman< no role > James Smeaton< no role > , Thomas Landell< no role > , John Donald< no role > , Thomas
Webster< no role > , James Bramble< no role > and Abel Jones< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by that what Means the said Robert Doddington< no role > came to
his Death do upon their Oath say, That the said Robert Daddington, not being
of Sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Seventh day of October in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of
small Cord unto a piece of Tundex in the passage near the outward Door, in the House
of Archibald Steward situate and being in Newport Market 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 Robert Doddington< no role > then and there died.
and so the Jurors aforesaid upon theie Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Robert Doddington, 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 Robert Baldey< no role > Foreman of the
said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his 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
Robt BaldeyForeman