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 Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twentieth day of July 1792 in the thirty second
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 Anthony
Gell< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Edward ketle then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Edward Newcomb< no role > , William Cuttow< no role > , William Bailey< no role > William
Collins< no role > Samuel Daniel< no role > , Richard Mansell< no role > , Thomas Appleby< no role > , James
Sewell< no role > , John Readings< no role > , John Randall< no role > , Abraham Belcher< no role > ,
Humphrey Trinder< no role > , Nathaninel Petty< no role > , John Mathew< no role > , George
Collins< no role > , John Whittock< no role > , James Field< 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 Edward Ketle< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that the said Edward Ketle on the Sixteenth
day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty aforesaid, not being of sound Mind, Memory, and
Understanding but lunatic and distracted) To Wit in the
River Thames there, did cast and throw himself, by means of which
said Casting and Throwing, he the said Edward Ketle in the Water
of the said River was then and there suffocated and drowned,
of which said Suffocation and [..] ing he the said Edward
Ketle then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid, do say that the said Edward Ketle, in
manner and by the means aforesaid, not being of sound,
Mind Memory and understanding but lunatic and
distracted did drown and Kill himself. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Edward
Newcomb< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his said Fellows in their Presence
have to this Inquisition set their hands and Seals the
Day Year and Place above-written.

Anthy. Gell< no role > [mark] Coroner
Edward Newcomb< no role > [mark] Foremen