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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of August in the Seventeenth 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
William Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Gardner< no role >
William Ekins< no role > , John Skinners< no role > , John Wright< no role > , James Toplis< no role > , John Gilbett< no role > , Hugh
Pain< no role > , Thomas Hurt< no role > , Joseph Chasman< no role > , Thomas Castleman< no role > , Thomas Scott< no role > , Joseph
Horner< no role > , William Gockett< no role > , Thomas Mackay< no role > , and Robert Askey< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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 William Smith< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said William Smith< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Seventh day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one
end of a certain String fastened to a Beam in the Ceiling of a Room called the Store Room
in the Dwelling House of Mr. John Hull< no role > , Baker, his Master in old. Tothil Street and
the other and thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten and there with did then
and there hang suffocate and strangle himself by means of which Suffocation and
Strangling to the said William Smith< no role > then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said William Smith< no role > not being of
Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and
by the means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of
the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and at the Place abovementioned .

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jno. Gardner< no role > [mark] Foreman