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 the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteenth day of September 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 Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert
Allen< no role > , John Beales< no role > , William Hutchinson< no role > Ezekiel Urell< no role > , Phillip Blackman< no role > , John
Ireland< no role > , William Towler< no role > Robert Slack< no role > , John Richardson< no role > , John Brown< no role > John Leaton,
Thomas Mitchell< no role > and George Stretton< 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 Smith< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Smith< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted,
on the thirteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End of a
certain Linen Handkerchief unto an Iron Hook fastened into the
Door frame in the Cellar of the said Thomas Smith< no role > in the Dwelling House
of Timothy Vaughan< no role > in Oxford Street 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 Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling he the said Thomas Smith< no role > then and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid Upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Thomas Smith< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory
and Understanding but lunatick End distracted, in Manner
and by the Means aforesaid, did hang and kill himself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert
Allen< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place first
abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .
Prob Allen< no role > Foreman