City and Liberty
of Westmister
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Third day of August in the Sixteenth 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
Edward Hewitt< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Francis Jones< no role >
Robert Elliott< no role > , George Storwell< no role > , Richard Tayler< no role > , John Corney< no role > , Thomas Poole< no role > , John Powell< no role > , John
Neal< no role > , Jeremiah Bullock< no role > , William Hawkins< no role > , James Kennedy< no role > , Leo Priddle< no role > , William Cobbell< no role >
Thomas Warr< no role > , and Robert Fogg< 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 Edward Hewitt< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Edward Hewitt< no role > not being of Sound Mind
Memeory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the second day of August in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain
peice of Lord unto a Nail fastened into the Wainscot in the back Garrett of the Dwelling
House of him the said Edward Hewitt< no role > situate in New bond Street in the Parish, Liberty
and County aforesaid, and the other end thereof about his own Neck did fix tye and fasten
and there with did then and there Hang Suffocate and Strangle himself of which said
Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said Edward Hewett< no role > then and there Died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward
Hewitt< no role > not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted
in manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill himself. In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself
and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals
the Day Year and at the Place first abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jas. Jones< no role > [mark] Foreman