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 Twenty second day of November in the Twenty third
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 Joseph Deon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Kemshall< no role > , John Jones< no role > , William Allen< no role > ,
Stephen Lee< no role > , George Phillips< no role > , David Phillips< no role > , John Smith< no role >
Augustine Fisher< no role > , Robert Renford< no role > Richard Cunningham< no role >
Frederick Lubect< no role > and Francis Spriggs< 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 Joseph Deon came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Joseph Deon, not being
of sonard Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
distracted on the Twenty first day of November in the Year
aforesaid a certain piece of small Cord unto a Wooden Rail
at the Head of the Bed in the Lodging Room or Apartment of
him the said Joseph Deon in the Dwelling House of Robert
Runsiman< no role > in Comp Court 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 Joseph
Deon then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Joseph Deon 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 Thomas Kemshall< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors on the behalf of himself and the rest of his 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 .
Thos. Kemshall [mark] Foreman