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 Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of December in the Ninth 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 > , Genleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
John Adams< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Tolley< no role > , George Short< no role > , John Murdock< no role > , Edward Bathorn< no role > , Richard Bryde< no role > , Joseph
Dancox< no role > , Thomas Hall< no role > , Edward Hasledine< no role > , John Dethick< no role > , Daniel Bower< no role > , Robert
Allaway< no role > , William Clement< no role > , Thomas Cundall< no role > , William Faithorn< no role > , Charles
Ross< no role > , and George Neale< 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 what Means the said John Adams< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Adams< no role > , not being of sound,
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh
day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Linnen Neck Cloth unto a Wooden Rail
at the feet of a Bed in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the said John Adams< no role > ,
in the Dwelling House of Thomas Wilson< no role > , situate and being in Burleigh Street
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 John Adams< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid,
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Adams< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, butlunatick anddistracted,
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Tolley< 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 > [mark] Coroner .

Thos. Tolleys< no role > [mark] Foreman