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 Twentieth day of January 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
Robert Stubbs< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward
Myers< no role > , Cornelius Barns< no role > , Edward Boswell< no role > , Richard Mitchell< no role >
Alexander Simpson< no role > , Samuel Haws< no role > , David Breadshaw< no role > , William Smith< no role >
James Scott< no role > , Thomas Hopkins< no role > , Richard Collins< no role > Adam Ragg< no role > , William
Gilks< no role > , John Sutton< no role > and Francis Anderson< 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 Robert Stubbs< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Robert Stubbs< no role > not being of
Sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted
on the Eighteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain Pistol charged
with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet which he the said Robert
Stubbs< no role > then and there had and held in his right Hand to and
against the left Breast of him the said Robert Stubbs< no role > did then and
there shoot off and discharge by Means whereof he the said Robert
Stubbs< no role > did then and there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet
aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the
force of the Gun Powder aforesaid, in and upon the left Breast of him
the said Robert Stubbs< no role > one mortal Wound of the Breadth of one Inch
and of the Death of five Inches, of which said mortal wound he the
said Robert Stubbs< no role > from the said Eighteenth day of January in the Year
aforesaid until the Twentieth day of the same Month and Year at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid did
languish and languishing did live, on which said Twentieth day
of January aforesaid at the Parish and in the LIberty and County
aforesaid he the said Robert Stubbs< no role > of the mortal Wound aforesaid
did dye. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Robert Stubbs< 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 Edward Myers< 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 > Coroner
Edwd. Myers Foreman