City of 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 Seventh day of February in the twenty fifth
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 Luke Hogarth then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Burgan< no role > , Richard Bell< no role > , William Buckland< no role > ,
William Pexley< no role > , Thomas Hall< no role > , Thomas Budge< no role > , Henry
Slach< no role > , William Ombey, James Martin< no role > , William
Davies< no role > , Owen Scott< no role > John Baxter< no role > and Abraham
Musgrave< 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 Luke Hogarth came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Luke Hogarth not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted, on the fifth day of February
in the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of small
Cord unto an Iron Staple at the top of a Door in Andley
Street Chapel in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about
his won 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 Luke Hogarth then and there
died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Luke Hogarth, not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said John Burgan< 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 > Coroner

Jno. Burgar< no role > Foreman