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 Sixth day of June in the Sixteenth 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 Iton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Noah
Hayter< no role > , William Carpenter< no role > , Henry Sawyer< no role > , Patrick Funton< no role > , Samuel
Musilwaight< no role > , Peter Bishop< no role > , William Trape< no role > , John Beavan< no role > , John Jones< no role > ,
John Couzron< no role > , Caleb Furnil< no role > , Aaron Barling< no role > , William House< no role > , and
Edward Means< 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 Iton came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Uton< no role > laboring under
a grievous Disease of Body, to wit, a Fever, and by reason of the violence
of the said Discase being Delirious and out of his Mind, on the Fifth
day of June in the Year aforesaid, from and out of a certain one pair of
Stairs Window then and there being in the Workhouse of the said Parish
of Saint Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County aforesaid
did violently cast and throw himself to the Ground, to and
against the Stone Pavement of the Yard belonging to the said
Workhouse , by Means of which said casting and throwing, he
the said Thomas Iton did then and there receive a violent Concussion
of the Brain, of which said violent Concussion he the said
Thomas Iton then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said Thomas Iton in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, being Delirious and out
of his Mind as aforesaid, by reason of the violence of the Fever
aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Noah Hayter< 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 > Coroner
Noah Hayter< no role > Foreman