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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the First day of May in the Thirteenth 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
Thomas Reeks< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Lewling< no role >
Francis Parry< no role > , John Mutton< no role > , William Forest< no role > , John Hughes< no role > , Robert Blake< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > ,
Thomas Palsbury< no role > , James Currie< no role > , John Lyell< no role > , Philip Peckham< no role > John Hart< no role > ,
Joseph Barber< no role > and John Lomax< 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 Thomas Reeks came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Reeks, not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted, on the
First day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a
leaden Bullet, which he the said Thomas Reeks then and there had and held
in his Right Hand, to and against to rightside of the Head of him the said
Thomas Reeks, did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he
the said Thomas Reeks did then and there give unto himself with the leaden
Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid by the force
of the Gunspowder aforesaid [..] upon the Right side of the Head of him
the said Thomas Reeks, one man Fractures, of which said mortal Fracture
he the said Thomas Reeks then and there instantly died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Thomas Reeks, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted,
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Lewling Foreman of
the said Jurors, on the behalf 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

Thos. Lewling< no role > [mark] Foreman