City & 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 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 Sixteenth day of August 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 William Dow< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Thomas Fields< no role > , John Williams< no role > , John Nisbit< no role > , Austin Billing< no role > , Jesse
Gacy< no role > James Doble< no role > , James Cooper< no role > , William Salsman< no role > , James Stamp< no role >
Joseph Gage< no role > , Walter Gage< no role > , Edward Winstanley< no role > Thomas Woodhouse< no role >
and William Phillipson< 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 William Dow< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said William Dow< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory, and understanding but lunatic and distracted, on the
fourteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in
the Liberty aforesaid, a certain Piston charged with Gunpodwer, and a leaden
Bullet which he the said William Dow< no role > then and there had and held to
and against the Breast of him the said William Dow< no role > did then and there
shoot off and discharge, by means whereof he the said William Dow< no role > , did then
and there give unto himself with the leaden Bullet aforesaid so discharged
and shot out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the Force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal
wound of the breadth of one Inch, and of the depth of two Inches of which said
Mortal Wound he the said William Dow< no role > then and there instantly died. And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
William Dow< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding
lunatic and distracted in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did
kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coronor as the said Thomas Field< 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 first abovewritten.

Anthy Gell< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos.Field< no role > [mark] Foreman