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. Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of December 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
Nicholas Merry< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Thomas< no role > , Thomas Simmonds< no role > , Robert Walker< no role > , Christopher Lewis< no role > , Samuel Hoult< no role > , James
Fitz Patrick< no role > , Thomas Jefferson< no role > , John Lester< no role > , John Eichhorn< no role > , Francis Reiginer< no role > , John
Wall< no role > , Samuel Jackman< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , Henry Fisher< no role > , John Robinson< no role > , Job
Fidsbury< no role > , John Olive< no role > and William Bayliff< 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 Nicholas Merry< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Nicholas Merry< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
Twentieth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid, in the dwelling house of him the
said Nicholas Merry< no role > there situate, with a certain Razor made of
Iron and Steel, which he the said Nicholas Merry< no role > then and there
had and held in his Right Hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said
Nicholas Merry< no role > , did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby
then and there giving unto himself the said Nicholas Merry< no role > , with the
Razor aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said Nicholas
Merry< 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 Nicholas Merry< no role > then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do
say, that the said Nicholas Merry< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, did hill himself. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said James Thomas< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Jas. Thomas< no role > [mark] Foreman