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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirteeth day of November in the Nineteenth 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
Samuel Bruckshaw< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Richard
Kilsby< no role > , Joseph Squires< no role > , William Williams< no role > , Robert Bamfort< no role > , Thomas Gray< no role > ,
George Hichcock< no role > , John Stevenson< no role > , Charles Smith< no role > James Burchell< no role > Charles
Harris< no role > , Edward Henley< no role > , Robert Thacker< 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 Samuel Bruckshaw< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Samuel Bruckshaw
not being of sound mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted on the Twenty ninth day of
November in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain piece of small
Cord unto the Bed-post in the Lodging Room or Apartment
of him the said Samuel Bruckshaw in the Dwelling House
of William Hodgson< no role > situate in St. Martin's Lane within
the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End
thereof about his own Neck did six tye and fasten, and
therewith did then and there hang suffocate and Strangle
himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling
he the said Samuel Bruckshaw then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Samuel Bruckshaw not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did hill
himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as
the said Richard Kilsby< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Richd. Kilsby [mark] Foreman