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. John the Evangelist
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixteenth day of September 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
William Mackreth< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Fletcher< no role > , William Stratford< no role > , Wright Burdett< no role > , John Williams< no role > , Robert Clarke< no role > , Thomas Greenaway< no role > ,
William Ginger< no role > , Thomas Fisher< no role > , John Waker< no role > , Timothy Carter< no role > , John Whitehead< no role > , William Heare< no role > ,
John Fell< no role > , William Life< no role > , and Paul Wilson< 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 Means the said William Mackreth< no role > came to
h Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Mackreth< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the said Sixteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End
of a certain piece of Small Cord unto an Iron Hook fastened into a
Wooden Beam in the Kitchen of the dwelling House of the said
William Mackreth< no role > situate and being in Mill Bank 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 and strangle himself
of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said William
Mackreth< no role > then and there died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said William Mickreth, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill himself.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William
Fletcher< 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

Wm. Fletcher< no role > Foreman