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 First day of February in the Thirtieth
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 George Hickson then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Lyne< no role > , Rice Powell< no role > , Francis Walters< no role > , Robert
Crosland< no role > , Alexander Applegarth< no role > , William Hebb< no role > , John
Arnold< no role > , William Bishop< no role > , Thomas Brigden< no role > , William Carr< no role >
Daniel Bunning< no role > and Alexander Miles< 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 George Hickson came to
h is. Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said George Hickson< no role > on the twenty seventh
day of January in the Year aforesaid, labouring under a Grevious Disease of
Body (to wit) a Dropsy, and by reason of the Violence of the said Disease
being Delicious and out of his Mind, at the said Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square within the Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain knife made of
Iron and Steel which he the said George Hickson then and there had and held
in his right Hand. The Thomas of him the said George Hickson did then and
there strike Stab, and penetrate, thereby then and there giving into himself the
said George Hickson so being delicious and of his Mind as aforesaid,
with the simple aforesaid in and upon the Throat of him said George Hickson one
mortal wound of the length of two Inches and of the Depth of one Inch. of which said
mortal wound he the said George Hickson at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid from the said Twenty seventh day of January in the year aforesaid
untill the Twenty Eighth day of the same Month and Year did Languish and Languashing
did live,On which said Twenty Eighth day of January in the Year of aforesaid he the said
George hickson of the mortal wound aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and Country
aforesaid did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said George Hickson in manner and by the means aforesaid being Delicious & out of his
mind as aforesaid did kill himself.

In Witness where of as well the said Coroner
as the said Thomas Lyne< 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 then Hands
and seals the Day year and place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Tho. Lyne< no role > Foreman