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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day February 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
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Charles
Sandys< no role > , James Hawke< no role > , Henry Bellamy< no role > , Anthony Oxenbeer< no role > , John Heather< no role > ,Harry
Adeane< no role > , Benjamin Ixer< no role > , Mathew Riley< no role > , Edward Berry< no role > , Matthew Davis< no role > , Adam
Wright< no role > and John Thrift< 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 Man unknown came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Man whose Name is unknown
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the Seventh day of February 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 Man Unknown then and there had and held in his Right Hand,
to and against the Head of him the said Man unknown did then and
there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof he the said Man
unknown 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 Gunpowder aforesaid, one mortal Wound in and
through the Head of him the said Man unknown, of which said
mortal Wound he the said Man unknown then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
he said Man unknown, 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 Charles Sandys 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 > Coroner

Chas Sandys< no role > [..] Foreman