London

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 fifth day of December in the thirty eighth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 John Wilmot< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of Ralph Monk< no role > John Scott< no role > James Stock< no role > Thomas Broad< no role >
Josiah Dean< no role > William Puckridge< no role > Robert Read< no role > John Purden< no role > William Hughes< no role > Thomas
Whitaker Thomas< no role > Gower Henry Madgin Thomas Massey< no role > Richard Thompson< no role > John
Hunt Joseph Calvert Joseph Hunt< no role > William Castle< no role > Robert Macdowell William
Brownjohn and William Belcher< 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 John
Wilmot came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Wilmot< no role > on the
thirtieth day of November in the year aforesaid at the parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted with a certain pen knife of the value of one
penny which he in his right hand then and there had and held the throat of himself
the said John Wilmot< no role > did then and there violently cut giving to himself the said
John Wilmot< no role > one mortal wound in and upon his throat of which said mortal
wound he the said John Wilmot< no role > from the said thirtieth day of November in the year
aforesaid until the third day of December in the same year as well at the said parish
of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex as also at the abovementioned parish of
Saint Bartholomew the loss in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did
languish and languishing did live and on the said third day of December in the
year aforesaid at the parish last aforesaid in the ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
the said John Wilmot< no role > of the said Mortal wound did die.-And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said John Wilmot< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did kill himself
In Witness whereof as well as the said Coroner as the said Ralph Monk< 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 abovewritten.

R Monk [mark] Foreman