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 Twelfth day of October 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
Charles Chapman< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Alexander
Mackintosh< no role > , Sommerville Macquire< no role > , John Gray< no role > John Fisher< no role > , Joh Bruce< no role >
Benjamin Burges< no role > , Henry Kirby< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Samuel Dagley< no role > , Joseph
Jefford< no role > , Thomas Sundill< no role > , James Solirol< no role > , William Billing< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , John
Lockwood< no role > , Thomas Wilding< no role > and James Irwyn< 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 Charles Chapman< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Charles Chapman< no role > , not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted, on the Twelfth day of October in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of Small Cord
unto an Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging-
-room or Apartment of him the said Charles Chapman< no role >
in the Dwelling House of Ralph Hall< no role > situate in great
Windmill Street in the said Parish Liberty and County, 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 Charles Chapman< no role > , then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Charles Chapman< 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 Alexander Mackintosh< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors,
on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows,
in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
and Seals the Day Year and Place abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Alex Mackintosh< no role > [mark] Foreman