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 St. George Hanover Square
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 March 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
James Barton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Surby< no role >
Thomas Lyne< no role > , Richard Payne< no role > , Richard Emery< no role > , William Hart< no role > , John
Sutton< no role > , Charles Briere< no role > , Samuel Gold< no role > , Edmond James< no role > , Francis
Parsons< no role > , William Gilard< no role > & John Isaacs< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duty sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said James Barton< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Barton< no role > laboring
under a grievous Disease of Body, to wit, a Fever, and by
the violence of the said Fever being Delirious and out of
his Mind, on the Seventh day of March in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of Thomas Wilson< no role > there
Situate, with a certain Caseknife made of Iron and Steel
which he the said James Barton< no role > then and there had and held
in his right hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said James
Barton< no role > did then and there strike a\stab and penetrate,
thereby then and there giving unto himself the said James
Barton< no role > , so being Delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid
with the Case knife aforesaid in and upon the Throat or Gullet
of him the said James Barton< no role > one mortal Wound of the length
of four Inches and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said mortal
Wound he the said James Barton< no role > then and there instantly died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said James Barton< no role > by reason of the Fever aforesaid being
Delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner, as the said John Surby< 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 .

John Surby< no role > Foreman