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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fourth day of July 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
John Dodson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Daniel Hancock< no role > ,
James Erwin< no role > , Thomas Tompson< no role > , William Hutson< no role > , Robert Martin< no role > , William Cade< no role > , Richard Barnett< no role > ,
James Duckett< no role > , Daniel Keep< no role > , James Jones< no role > , William Clemmants< no role > , Daniel Luckhurst< no role > , William
Hide< no role > , and William Carr< 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 Dodson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Dodson< no role > not being of Sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty third day of July in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one end of a certain peice of Cord unto the Feaster
Lath of his Bed in the Apartment of him the said John Dodson< no role > in the Dwelling House of Mr. David Burnsall
his Master Situate and being in Charles Street Berkeley Square 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 Dodson< no role >
then and there Died. And to the Jurors aforesaid upon the Oath aforesaid do say, that the said John
Dodson< no role > 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 Foreman
of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place above mentioned.

Thos Prickard< no role > Coroner

Danl Hancock< no role > Foreman