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. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of May 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 Daniel Davies< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Barber< no role > Thomas Gregory< no role > , Robert Jones< no role > , John Terry< no role >
Thomas Goodall< no role > , John Gibson< no role > , William Russell< no role > , Thomas Latham< no role >
John Jones< no role > George Barling< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , David Dore< no role > ,
James Stewart< no role > , William Sully< no role > , Robert Pratt< no role > , and
Thomas Baker< 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 Daniel Davies< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Daniel Davies< no role > not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted on the Twelfth day of May in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid on End of a certain Piece of Cord unto an Iron Staple
fastened into the Ceiling in the Apartment of him the said
Daniel Davies< no role > in the Dwelling House of John Moffat< no role >
situate and being Turner's Court in the Parish 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 Daniel
Davies< no role > then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Daniel Davies< 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 John Barber< 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
abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
John Barber< no role > [mark] Foreman