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 Twentieth day of December in the Fourteenth 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 Webb< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of David
Neilson< no role > , John Fletcher< no role > , Thomas Cooper< no role > , James Butcher< no role > , Patrick Keen< no role > ,
William Kelley< no role > , Stephen Pitt< no role > , John Osborn< no role > , Daniel Ingman< no role > , George Ballat< no role >
Joseph Lovett< no role > , John Ellel< no role > , Edward Collins< no role > , John Wallis< no role > , and Simon
Henckin< 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 Webb< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Thomas Webb< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Seventeenth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish and in the LIberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain
piece of small Cord, unto a Scaffold Pole in the Yard adjoining to the
dwelling House of him the said Thomas Webb< no role > , situate and being 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 Thomas Webb< no role > then and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said Thomas Webb< 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 said David Neilson< 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 > Coroner
Dad. Neilson< no role > Foreman