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 the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventeenth 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
Michael Cooper< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Strong< no role > , Robert Wolfe< no role > , John Verren< no role > , William Carpenter< no role > , Alexander Gray< no role > , Charles
Sisill, Thomas Freeman< no role > , John Siddington< no role > , George Brown< no role > , Nicholas Scotcher< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
Jacob Nelstrop< no role > and Nathaniel Simmons< 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 Michael Cooper< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Michael Cooper< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but Lunatic and distracted, on the
said Seventeenth day of June in the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain
piece of Cord unto a Scallold Pole on the outside of a new Building
situate and being at Water Works Bridge in the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, 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 Kanging
Suffocation and Strangling he the said Michael Cooper< no role > then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Michael Cooper< no role > , 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
Richard Strong< 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

Richard Strong< no role > Foreman