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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of May 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 Vitu< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin
Baily< no role > , Joseph Cox< no role > , John Blanchard< no role > , Thomas Reader< no role > , James King< no role > ,
Thomas Hodgson< no role > , James Mc. Intosh< no role > , William Mc. Cliesh< no role > , Henry
List< no role > , John Sadler< no role > , William Gee< no role > , Richard Beadle< no role > and John
Deards< 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 Vitu< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said John Vitu< no role > laboring under a
grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Bilious Colick, and by reason of the
violence of the said Disease being delirious and out of his Mind, on the
Twenty third day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid in the dwelling House of the said John Vitu< no role >
there situate, with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel, which he the said
John Vitu< no role > then and there had and held in his Right Hand, the Belly of him
the said John Vitu< no role > did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then
and there giving unto himself the said John Vitu< no role > , so being delirious and out
of his Mind as aforesaid, with the Knife aforesaid, in and upon his Belly
[..] mortal wound of the [..] Depth of two
Inches, of which said mortal wound he the said John Vitu< no role > from the said Twenty-
-third day of April in the Year aforesaid until the Sixth day of May in the same Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Sixth
day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, he the said John Vitu< no role > of the mortal Wound aforesaid, did die.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
John Vitu< no role > , by Reason of the said Disease, being delirious and out of his
Mind as aforesaid, in Man [..] and by the [..] aforesaid, did kill
himself. In Witness [..] hereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Benjamin Baily< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Benn Baily< no role > [mark] Foreman