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 Sixteenth day of March in the Tenth 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
Richard Miller< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Scrace< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , John Hill< no role > , Jeremiah Bever< no role > , Robert Ocshon< no role > , Henry
Akin< no role > , William Grainger< no role > , William Thompson< no role > , Joseph Lamp< no role > , Henry Harrison< no role > ,
William Waldby< no role > and John Smallwood< no role > , good and Lawfull 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 Richard Miller< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon Oath say, That the said Richard Miller< no role > , not being of
sound mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on
the Fifteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of
Cord Tape, unto a wooden Rafter in a Hayloft over the Cowhouse of
Thomas Wallington situate and being in Brick Street , in the said Parish
Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix
tye, and faster, and there with did then and there hang, suffocate, and
strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling
he the Said Richard Miller< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Richard
Miller< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Kill himself.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Richard
Scrace 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

Thos. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Richard Scrace< no role > [mark] Foreman