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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day of January l in the Thirteenth 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
Charles Arbuckle< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Harry House< no role > ,
Francis Wanion< no role > , John Curtis< no role > , Thomas Adams< no role > , Thomas Fowler< no role > , Samuel Richards< no role > ,
Henry Barford< no role > , Michael Downes< no role > , John Whitcomb< no role > , James Tricket< no role > , William Macdowell< no role > ,
John Cooper< no role > , Samuel Thorpe< no role > , Robert Jackson< no role > , Thomas Taylor< no role > , Richard Harper< no role > ,
Robert Brown< no role > and Leonard Phillips< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Mean the said Charles Arbuckle< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Arbuckle, not bring of
sound. Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the said Seventh day of January in the year aforesaid at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece
of Silk Line unto the Wooden Rail at the feet of the Bed in the Lodging
Room of him the said Charles, Arbuckle in his Dwelling House situate
and being in St. Alban Street in the said Parish Liberty and County,
and the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix tye and fasten,
of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said Charles
Arbuckle then there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Charles Arbuckle< 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 Harry House< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the 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 above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Harry House Foreman