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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteenth day of May in the Eleventh 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
Jenison Shafto< no role > Esquire then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Agnew< no role > , William Flanagan< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , Thomas Pugh< no role > , Edward Reynolds< no role > John Ridley< no role > ,
James Lock< no role > , Conden Forbet< no role > , John Jarvis< no role > , John Bland< no role > , William Jump< no role > , Edward
Kightley< no role > , John Gale< no role > , Thomas Potts< no role > , William Troughton< no role > , John Dod< no role > , Christopher James< no role > ,
Matthew Snowden< no role > , Richard Savage< no role > , Evan Morris< no role > , John Menies< no role > , William Scarbrough< no role >
David Owen< no role > and William Smawley< 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 Jenison Shafto came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jenison Shafto laboring under a
grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever, and by reason of the violence of the
said Disease, being delirious and out of his Mind, on the said Thirteenth
day of may in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden
Bullet which he the said Jenison Shafto then and there had and held in his
right Hand, to and against the Right side of the Head of him the said
Jenison Shafto, so delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid, did then
and there Shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Jenison
Shafto did then and there give unto himself, so delirious and out of
his Mind, with the leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out
of the Pistol aforesaid, by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, in and
through the Head of him the said Jenison Shafto, one mortal Wound, of
which said mortal Wound to the said Jenison Shafto then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Jenison Shafto, being delirious and out of his Mind
as aforesaid, by reason of the Fever aforesaid, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness where of as well
the said Coroner as the said James Agnew 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 > Coroneor
James Agneto< no role > Foreman