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 Eleventh day July in the twenty Sixth
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 to our Said Lord the King for the Said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Walter Collins< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
Edward Britten< no role > , William Gillard< no role > , John King< no role >
John Pollard< no role > , Henry Halland< no role > , William Brooks< no role > , William New< no role > ,
John Hatichett, John Munday< no role > , Henry Barton< no role > , Thomas Rose< no role > ,
and John Pearson< 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 Walter Collins< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the Walter Collins< no role > Laboring under
a grievous Disease of Body, to Wit, a Fever and by reason of the
Violence of the said Disease being Deliriousand out of his Mind on the said
Eleventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of John Hatchett< no role > there
situate, with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which he the said
Walter Collins< no role > then and there had and held in his Hands, the Throat or
Gullet of him the said Walter Collins< no role > then and then Strike Stab and
penetrate thereby then and their giving unto himself the said Walter Collins< no role >
so being Delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid with the Knife aforesaid
in and upon the Throat or gullet of him the said Walter Collins< no role > one mortal
Wound of the Lenght of four Inches and of the Depth of one Inch of which
said Mortal Wound he the said Walter Collins< no role > then and there instantly
died: And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say,
that the said Walter Collins< no role > by Reason of the Disease aforesaid, being
Delirious and out of his Mind as aforesaid, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid, did hill himself:

In Witness whereof, as well the
said Coroner , as the said Edward Britton< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors
or 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 > [mark] Coroner

Edwd Britten< no role > [mark] Foreman