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 St. Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of July 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
Richard Boughen< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of George Field< no role >
Patrick Mathews< no role > , Thomas Lamb< no role > , Thomas Spencer< no role > , Evan Davies< no role > , George Finley< no role > , Richard
Owen< no role > , Henry Steel< no role > , William Davis< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > , James Wild< no role > , William Bond< no role > , William
Crandall< no role > , John Lawrence< no role > and Richard Dewdney< 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 Richard Boughen came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Richard Boughen not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on
the said Thirtieth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord
unto an Iron Spike fastened into the Wainscott, in the Lodging Room or
Apartment of him the said Richard Boughen situate and being 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 Richard Boughen then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid [..] say, that the said Richard Boughen, 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 George
Field< 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
George Field< no role > Foreman