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 Jameswithin the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex the
Fourth day of Mayin the fourth 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 > Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the King
for the Said City and Liberty On View of the Body of Thomas Clayton< no role > then and there
lying Dead, upon the Oath of Francis Flower< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , Francis White< no role > , William Frisby< no role >
William Xerxes< no role > , James Mitchel< no role > , Richard Jesson< no role > , John Davis< no role > , David Stiles< no role > , John Fidler< no role > , Robert Allen< no role > , Joseph Strutt< no role >
John Sigris< no role > , Thomas Cristfield< no role > , Samuel Hunt< no role > & Alexander Morrison< no role > , good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
Chosen 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 Thomas Clayton< no role > Came to his Death do upon
Their Oath say That the said Thomas Clayton< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and and distracted, on the third day of May in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid,
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto an Iron barr
over the Area or Passage in the back part of the Dwelling House of Thomas Gunston< no role > situate
and being in Jermyn Street in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof
about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and
strangle himself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said Thomas Clayton< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said
Thomas Clayton< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said Francis Flower< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on behalf of himself and thereof
of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the
Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Fras. Flower< no role > Foreman