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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fourteenth day of August in the Eighteenth 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 Blake< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry Hillam< no role >
William Taylor< no role > , Walter Tristrams< no role > : John Alderson< no role > , Richard Blackman< no role > , William Gilks< no role > , William
Owen< no role > , William Tompkins< no role > , Tycho Pilbrow< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Thomas Franklin< no role > , Richard Orsborn< no role >
James Thomas< no role > , James Cope< no role > , Richard Brock< no role > , and William Perfect< 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 William Blake< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say, That the said William Blake< no role > not being Sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Fourteenth day of August in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one end of a pair of Worsted Garters tied together
to an Iron Rod to the Tester of a Bed in the Bed Chamber of his Dwelling House in Marshall Street, and
the other and thereof about his own Neck did for top and Fasten and there with did then and there Hang
Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said Hang [..] Suffocation and Strangling he the Said William
Blake< no role > then and there instantly Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do Says
That the said William Blake< 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

Henry Hillam< no role > [mark] Foreman