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. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of April 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
Luke Franks< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Matthew
Wiggins< no role > , John Williams< no role > , Andrew Staines< no role > , Peter Wyatt< no role > , Thomas Blackmore< no role > , Joseph Carr< no role > ,
John Snatt< no role > , Richard Littlewort< no role > , Thomas Lambert< no role > , Thomas Barlow< no role > , John Plaw< no role > , John
Brinkman< no role > , Paul Wilson< no role > , Henry Harrison< no role > , John Nash< no role > , Thomas Blower< no role > , William Heare< no role > ,
John Martin< no role > and John Aglington< 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 Luke Franks came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Luke Franks, not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty sixth
day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of thick Cord, unto a Wooden Beam in the
Stable of John Williams< no role > , situate and being in Vine Street 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 Luke Franks then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Luke Franks, 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 Matthew Wiggins< 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
Mattw. Wiggins< no role > [mark] Foreman