London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the king at
London that is to say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the sixth day of June in the thirty sixth 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 Shelton< no role >
Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the body of Thomas Bradley< no role > now here lying dead by the
oath of Benjamin Barrett< no role > James Hill< no role > Henry young< no role > Charles Phelps< no role > Charles Harden< no role >
George Whittow< no role > Thomas Franklin< no role > Benjamin Lawrances< no role > Robert Busted< no role > Samuel Hiller< no role >
Michael Rook< no role > Cornelius Hidgman< no role > James Bacon< no role > John Plymsell, Charles Robert< no role > Ellis,
Alexander Mr. Pherson< no role > Richard Inwood< no role > James Hunt< no role > and Henry Woodford< no role > good and
lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Thomas
[..] Bradley came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Bradley< no role > not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the
third day of June in the year aforesaid as the parishand toof Saint Bridges otherwise Brides
in the ward aforesaid a certain pistol of the value of twelve penes loaded with gunpowder and
a loaden bullet which he the said Thomas Bradley< no role > in his night hand then and there had and held to at
and against the head of him the said Thomas Bradley< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge
guring to himself then and there with the loaden bullet aforesaid so shot off and discharged from the
said pistol by face of the gunpowder aforesaid no mortal wound in and upon the head of him the
said Thomas Bradley< no role > near the right on of the width of one inch and of the depth of five inches of which said
mortal wound he the said Thomas Bradley< no role > as well as the said parish of Saint Bridges otherwise
Brides as also at the aforesaid parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid did languish and languishing did live and afterwards towit on the
same day and year aforesaid as the parish and Ward last aforesaid in the City of London
aforesaid of the said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Bradley< no role > not being of found mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted did short and Kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said Benjamin Barrett< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on 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 first above written.

Benjn. Barrett [mark] Foreman.