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 St. Annin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter in Westminster
, in the County of Middlesex
, the Seventh day of June
in the 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
Thomas Prickard< no role >
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the
said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
John Dixon< no role >
then and there lying Dead upon
the Oath of
John Gerard< no role >
,
Thomas Greening< no role >
,
Reynold Grignion< no role >
,
Moses Wilson< no role >
,
John Chilton< no role >
,
Gilbert Ogilvie< no role >
,
Stephen Gaudry< no role >
Gilbert Sheldon< no role >
,
William Stidman< no role >
,
John Malpas< no role >
,
Joseph Palmer< no role >
,
Samuel Jaremard< no role >
,
John Groves< no role >
,
William
Graces< no role >
Alexander Richardson< no role >
,
Samuel Harris< no role >
,
Peter Mounier< no role >
,
Charles Stace< no role >
.
Thomas Stelling< no role >
Peter Harris< no role >
,
William
Conaway< no role >
,
Benjamin Wood< no role >
&
Thomas Nethersole< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, and who
being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how, and
by what means the said
John Dixon< no role >
came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That
the said
John Dixon< no role >
on the Seventh day of June in the year aforesaid and for a long time before being ill, and labouring
under a grievous Hypochdraick Disorder, and by reason of the violence of the said Disorder on the Day and Year
aforesaid being Delicious and out of his Mind, at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one end of a
certain piece of Small Cord unto an Iron Bolt which fastend a Grate over the Vault in the Dwelling House of
William
Wright< no role >
Oylman situate in Compton Street
in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and the other
End thereof about his own Neck did fix, tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate choak
and strangle himself, Of which said Hanging Suffocation Choaking and Strangling, he the said John
Dixon the [..] there Died: And so the Juror [..] aforesaid upon their Oath [..] that the said
John Dixon< no role >
, so being Delicious and out of his Mind as aforesaid in M
[..] and by the Means
aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
John Gerard< no role >
Foreman, on the behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors, in their presence, have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner
John Gerard< no role >
Foreman