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 Ninth day of January in the twenty seventh
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 Richard Dawes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Charles Elliot< no role > , George Bailey< no role > , Thomas Gore< no role > , Robert Kennett< no role >
Edward Thomas< no role > , Francis Perrigal< no role > , Thomas Oliver< no role > , David Pinder< no role > , George Watt< no role >
Leo Priddle< no role > , Jacob Pressley< no role > , Thomas Bennet< no role > , and Thomas Sharman< 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 Richard Danes< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Richard Dawes< no role > not having the Fear of God before
this Eyes, but Moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Sixth day of January in the Year aforesaid, with
force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid, in the Liberty and County aforesaid, in and upon himself in the Peace of God and
of our said Soveregin Lord the King then and there being Feloniously wilfully and of his Malice forethought did make
on Assault, and that the said Richard Dawes< no role > a piece of Linsen or other Cloth common called a Neckcloth with both
his hands did put round and about his own Neck and with violence and force pulled with both his Hands the ends
of the said Neck Cloth close and tight by Means whereof he the said Richard Dawes< no role > did then and there suffocate and
strangle himself in his Lodging Room or Apartment in the Dwelling House of Charles Townsend< no role > situate in New
Bond Street , of which said Suffocation and Stranglugh the said Richard Dawes< no role > old then and there Dye And to the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the Said Richard Danes in manner and by the Means aforesaid
Feloniously Wilfully and of his Malice aforethought Old Kill and Murder himself against the Peace of our said Lord
the King his Gown and Dignity. And that the said Richard Dawes< no role > at the Time of the committing the Felony and the order
aforesaid had no Goddson Chattels Lands or Tenements and so forth within the said Liberty and County or elsewhere
to the Knowledge of the said Jurors. In Witness whereof as wall the said Coroner at the Jurors aforesaid have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and the Place first abovementioned

Jos Bailey< no role >
Thos Gore< no role >

Robert Kennett< no role >
Edwd Thomas< no role >
Fras. Perigal< no role >
Thos Oliver< no role >

David Pinder< no role >
George Watt< no role >
Leo Riddle< no role >
Jacob Pruples< no role >

Tho Bennett< no role >
Thos. Shoeman

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Chas Elliott< no role > Foreman