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 James Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the twelfth day of November 1792 in the thirty third
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 Robert Banks Hodgkinson< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of Isaac Bingham< no role > , William Sharp< no role > , William Dixter< no role > , John Main< no role >
Ralph Welldon< no role > Richard Pearce< no role > , Alexander Faulconer< no role > , John Goodson< no role > , George
Payne< no role > , Joseph Miliner< no role > , Henry Beale< no role > , James Richardson< no role > , William Thomas< no role > ,
Henry Barnes< no role > John Callow< no role > , Joseph Blunt< no role > , William King< no role > , George Hudson< no role > ,
John Carpenter< no role > , Thomas Grunder< no role > , William Sandwell< no role > , William Wyatt< no role > ,
and William John Johnson< 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 Robert Banks Hodgkinson< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath Say that Said Robert Banks Hodgkingson< no role >
labouring under a grievous Disease of Body, to Wit the Stone in the Bladder,
and by Reason of the Violence of the Said Disease, being delirious and out
of his Mind , on the Eleventh day of November in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish, and in the Liberty aforesaid, a Certain Pistol, Charged with Gun Powder
and Bullet, Which he the Said Robert Banks Hodgkinson< no role > then and
there had and held, to and against the Head of him the Said Robert Banks
Hodgkinson< no role > , so delirious and out of his Mind aforesaid, did then and there
Shoot off and discharge, by means, whereof, he the Said Robert Banks
Hodgkinson< no role > , did then and there give unto himself, so delirious and out of
his Mind as aforesaid, with the Leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot
out of the Pistol aforesaid, by the Force of the Gun Powder foresaid, in and upon the Head
of him the Said Robert Banks Hodgkinson< no role > , one Mortal Wound of the Breadth of
one Inch and Depth of four Inches of Which Said Mortal Wound he the Said
Robert Banks Hodgkinson< no role > then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do Say, that the Said Robert
Banks Hodgkinson< no role > , being delirious and out of his Mind aforesaid by reasons
of the aforesaid. To Wit, the Stone in the Bladder of him the Said Robert
Banks Hodgkinson< no role > , in manner, and by the means aforesaid, did Kill himself
In Witness whereof as well the Said Coroner as the Said Isaac Bingham< 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
above Written

Anthy Gell< no role > , Coroner

Isaac Bingham< no role > Foreman