City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex to wit.

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of September in the thirty first
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 John Gibson< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Charles Bewer< no role > , Thomas Summonds< no role > , James Cook< no role > , John Blackwell< no role >
Henry Vint< no role > , John Twigg< no role > Henry Platt< no role > , Joseph Withers< no role > , John Lee< no role >
Barnard Baker< no role > , Isaac Froome< no role > , William Hill< no role > , Thomas Warren< no role > , Ephraim
Goatby< no role > , Nathaniel Morgan< no role > , Edward Roberts< no role > , Daniel Kelly< no role >
and John Bayley< 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 John Gibson< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Gibson< no role > not being of sound
Mind memory and understanding but Lunatick and distracted on the said Twenty
sixty day of September in the Year aforesaid at the said Parish of St. Paul Covent
Garden within the Liberty and County aforesaid with a certain Knife made of
Iron and Steel which he the said John Gibson< no role > then and then had and held in his
right Hand The Throat or Gullat of him the said John Gibson< no role > did strike state
and penitrate thereby then and there giving unto himself with the Knife
aforesaid one mortal wound of the Length of Five Inches and of the Depth
of One Inch of which said mortal Wound he the said John Gilson< no role > then and
there instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said John Gibson< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and
understanding but Lunatick and distracted in manner and by the means
aforesaid did [..] ill himself

In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Charles Bower< 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
abovementioned

Tho. Prichard< no role > Coroner

Bower Foreman