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 third day of December 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 Henry Marteson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Benjamin Cook< no role > Gyles Lawrence< no role > James Parrett< no role > , William
Carpenter< no role > John Edwards< no role > John Evans< no role > , William Turner< no role >
James Wheatley< no role > , John Cook< no role > Peter Vining< no role > William Clarke< no role >
Robert Arrowsmith< no role > and Thomas Vaughan< 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 Henry Marteson came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Henry Marteson
not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted on the Twenty first day of
December in the Year aforesaid in his Dwelling House situate
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
which he the said Henry Marteson then and there had
and held in his Right Hand the Throat or Gullet of him the
said Henry Marteson did then and there [..] ike Stab and penetrate,
thereby then and there giving unto himself with the Razer
aforesaid in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said
Henry Marteson one mortal Wound of the Length of three Inches
and of the Depth of one Inch of which said mortal Wound he
the said Henry Marteson then and there instantly died, And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the
said Henry Marteson, 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 Benjamin in Cook Foreman of
the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows,
in their presence have hereunto set their Hands and Seals the
Day Year and Place above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Benjamin Cook< no role > Foreman