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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty eighth day of November in the Twelfth 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
John Young< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Samuel
Newman< no role > , Robert Walker< no role > , Charles Green< no role > , George Barber< no role > , John Maclane< no role >
John Pinhorn< no role > , Samuel Mattem< no role > , Samuel Bradford< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > Humphry
Fort< no role > , John Fracys< no role > , James Henderson< no role > , Walter Williams< no role > , John Williams< no role > , Jacob
Saywell< no role > , Thomas Salter< no role > and Edward Spice< 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 Young< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Young< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
Twenty seventh day of November in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and
in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Cotton Handkerchief
unto an Wooden Bracket fastened into the Wall, in the Lodging Room of him
the said John Young< no role > in his dwelling House 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 John Young< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Young< 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 Samuel Newman< 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

Saml. Newman< no role > Foreman