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 Paul Covent Garden within the
Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the
County of Middlesex , the Twenty second day of February in the 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner
of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of a Man
Unknown then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Joseph Mangaar< no role > , John Gilpin< no role > , John Reeme< no role >
James Baughan< no role > , James Garding< no role > , John Ford< no role > , Thomas Hayes< no role > , James Cate< no role > , David Morris< no role > , James Lawson< no role > , William
Weston< no role > , George Whyley< no role > , William Chapman< no role > , John Orlten< no role > , Robert Wainwright< no role > , James Pitt< no role > and Peter Paul< 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, new and by what
means the said Man UnknownCame to hisDeath, do upon their
Oath say, That the said Man Unknown, not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twentieth day of February in
the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid
[..] a certain piece [..]
the Parish Church of St. Paul Covent Garden , 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 Man unknown then and there died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Man
Unknown, 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 John Mangaar< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest 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 .

John Mangaar< no role > Foreman