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 Nineteenth day of April in the twenty fourth
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 William Humphries< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
George Warriner< no role > , William Mearns< no role > , Richard Goodwin< no role >
Hugh Jones< no role > , Robert Duckerell< no role > , William Ball Wheeler< no role > ,
Robert Burchill< no role > David Willis< no role > , Robert Butler< no role > , George
Stewart< no role > , John Edwards< no role > ,Edward Harvey< no role >
and George Gow< 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 William Humphries< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said William Humphries< no role >
not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
Lunatick and distracted on the Eighteenth day of April in
the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid one End of a certain Piece of small Cord unto an
Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging Room
[..] Apartment of the said William Humphires in the Dwelling
House of Anthony Smith< no role > situate in Swallow Street in the said
Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about
his own Neck did fix and fasten, and therewith did then
and there hang suffocate and Strangle himself, of which said
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said William
Humphries< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said William
Humphries< 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 George Warriner< 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

George Warriner< no role > Foreman