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 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 Twenty Fourth 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
John Wisdom< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Hood< no role > William Chandler< no role > , Peter Henderson< no role > , James Tims< no role > , William Turley< no role >
William Paterson< no role > , George Elkins< no role > John Matthews< no role > , Thomas Britton< no role > , John Barber< no role >
Walter Wood< no role > and Joseph Higgs< 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 John Wisdom< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said John Wisdom< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
distracted, on the Twenty third day of March in the Year aforesaid
one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto a Wooden Rafter
in the Necessary House or Privy of him the said John Wisdom< no role >
situate in Brick Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, 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 John Wisdom< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
John Wisdom< 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 William Hood< 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
above mentioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm. HoodForeman