Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the
House known by the Sign of the Black Boy in Long Acre in the Parish of St. Martin in the feilds within
the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster the Sixteenth
day of February in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace
of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our Sovereign Lord
the King for the City and Liberty aforesaid, Upon a Veiw of the Body of Joseph Bladzers< no role > lying Dead by the
Oaths of John Foster< no role > , Richard Platt< no role > , James Morris< no role > , John Stephens< no role > , Thomas Holmes< no role > , William Reeves< no role > , Edward Lewis< no role >
Edward Thornhill< no role > Joseph Clarke< no role > Thomas Green< no role > Paul Rooke< no role > , Thomas Scrofield< no role > , John Smith< no role > , Robert Maxfeild< no role >
John Miller< no role > , George Stephens< no role > , Samuel Ayris< no role > Robee Sherwin< no role > , John Manders< no role > , Edward Kingdom< no role > and William
Ayre< no role > Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged
to Inquire for our Sovereign Lord the King, how, when where, and in what manner the said Joseph
Bladzer< no role > came to his Death, Say upon their Oaths That on Thursday the fourteenth day of this Instant
February the said Joseph Bladzer being in aCoalCellar belonging to the House of William Wakefeild< no role >
situate in Long Acre in the Parish of St. Martin in the fields in the Liberty and County aforesaid
and not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatick and Distracted a Cord of no
Value into his hands did take and one part thereof wound his Neck did put and place and the
other part thereof round a wooden Rack in the said Cellar did put and fasten by means of which
putting placing and fasting as aforesaid the said Joseph Bladzer himself did hang suffocate and
strangle by means of which hanging suffocating and strangling he then and there instantly Died
And so the said Jurors upon their Oath say that the said Joseph Bladzer the said 14th day of
February in the Parish of St. Martin in the fields in the Liberty and County aforesaid in manner and former
aforesaid by his Death name and not otherwise
In Witness whereof as well the said Corner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid have to
this Inquisition put their hands and Seals the Day, Year, and at the place aforesaid

Jno Feary< no role >

Coroner

Jno. Foster< no role >

Foreman