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 Anne
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of March 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
Paul Garron< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Moorman< no role > , Walter Williams< no role > , Robert Hopwood< no role > , Francis Lyon< no role > , Henry Barns< no role > , John
Atkinson< no role > , John Allison< no role > , Francis Cooper< no role > , Richard Whitehead< no role > , George Watts< no role > , Archibald
Cunnison< no role > , Roby Bishop< no role > and John Anderson< 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 Paul Garron came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Paul Garron not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and
distracted, on the Eighth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, One End of a Certain
Silk and Cotton Handkerchief, unto the foot of the Bed (the said
Bed having been turned up) in the Lodging Room or Apartment
of him the said Paul Garron in the Dwelling House of Mary Price< 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
there with did then and there hang suffocate and Strangle
himself, of which said Hanging suffocation and Strangling he
the said Paul Garron then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Paul
Garron, not being of sound mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatic and distracted, in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness where of as well the
said Coroner, as the said John Moorman< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Moorman [mark] foreman