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 Fifteenth
day of May 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 Robert Charles< no role > Esquire then and there lying
dead upon the Oath of Peter Lewis Perrin< no role > , Thomas Storer< no role > , William Granger< no role > , John Tetlow< no role >
James Cole< no role > , George Cole< no role > , Charles Stubbs< no role > , Nathaniel Brown< no role > , James Goostree< no role > , John
Holloway< no role > , George Steuart< no role > and John Stockman< 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 Robert Charles< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath
say. That the said Robert Charles< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted, on the Fourteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of the said Robert
Charles< no role > there situate, with a certain Razor made of Iron and Steel, which he the said
Robert Charles< no role > then and there had and held in his left hand, the Throat or Gullet of him
the said Robert Charles< no role > did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there
giving unto himself, with the Razor aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the
said Robert Charles< no role > one mortal Wound, of the Length of three Inches, and of the Depth of one
Inch, of which said mortal Wound he the said Robert Charles< no role > and there died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Robert Charles< 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 Peter Lewis< no role > Perrin 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

P L Perrin [mark] Foreman