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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Pater, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifth day of August in the twenty third
Year of the Regin 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 Thomas Rankin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Mathews< no role > Daniel Stump< no role > , Thomas Thomas< no role > , Ferdinand Dyson< no role >
James Hoare< no role > , Richard Lyford< no role > , James James< no role > , Robert Adcock< no role > ,
Joseph Sharp< no role > , Robert Stevenson< no role > , William Watson< no role > John Wheatley< no role >
John Cotterell< no role > , Joseph Hill< no role > , Charles Wright< no role > , Josiah Day< no role > , William
Parry< no role > , James Gage< no role > , Charles Buer< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Francis Lindsey< no role > , John Barber< no role >
and John Washington< 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 Thomas Rankin came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Rankin, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted on the fifth day of August in the
Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid in the Dwelling House of Benjamin
Capper< no role > there situate, with a certain Razor made of Iron
and Steel, which he the said Thomas Rankin then and
there had and held in his Right Hand, the Throat or Gullet
of him the said Thomas Rankin did then and there strike stab
and penctrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself
with the Razor aforesaid in and upon the Throat or Gullet of
him the said Thomas Rankin one mortal Wound of the Length
of two Inches and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said mortal
Would he the said Thomas Rankin the and there instantly
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said Thomas Rankin 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 James
Mathews< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
James Mathews< no role > Foreman