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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the fourteenth day of April 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 James St. Quintin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Thomas Barrett< no role > , Thomas Steel< no role > , Gabriel Peary< no role > , Robert
Turner< no role > , William Baldwin< no role > , John Cartwright< no role > , Alexander Mc. Coy< no role >
William Green< no role > , Robert Archer< no role > , Henry Swallen< no role > , Peter Hart< no role > , John Robertson< no role > , Aaron
Loton< no role > and Richard Drew< no role > good and lawful Men of the Said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn ad charged to enquire for our Said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the Said James Quintin< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath Say That the Said St. Quintin not being
of sound Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatick and distracted on
the Thirteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County, aforesaid one End of a certain Handkerchief made of hill
and Cotton unto a certain Iron Hook fastened into the Wainscot in the Lodging
Room or Apartment of him the said James St. Quintin situate and being in
the said Parish Liberty and County and the other End thereof about his own neck
did fix and Fasten and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and
strangle himself of which said hanging suffocation and strangling he the said
James St. Quintin then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said James St. Quintin, 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 Thomas Barrett 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 > Coroner

James Barrett< no role > Foreman