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. Mary Le Strand
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 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
John Pritchard< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas Gale< no role > ,
Thomas Stree< no role > , Anthony Young< no role > , Alexander Wilson< no role > , Robert Evans< no role > , William Darling< no role > .
Daniel Wilshen< no role > , Samuel Roome< no role > george Eastwood< no role > , Jacob Allen< no role > , Robert Blandston< no role > , John Gold< no role > ,
Geroge Clithers< no role > , Richard Gilham< no role > Samuel Jones< no role > Thomas Morgan< no role > , William Purse< no role > , John Roberts< no role > ,
William Warburton< no role > , William Mason< no role > and Wm. Smith< 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 John Pritchard< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, that the said John Pritchard< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted on the Fifteenth
day of September in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and
County aforesaid, a Certain Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden
Bullett, to and against the right side of the Head of him the said John
Pritchard< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge, by reason whereof
the said John Pritchard< no role > did then and there give unto himself with the
leaden Bullet aforesaid so discharged and shot out of the Pestol aforesaid
by the force of the Gun Powder aforesaid one mortal Wound in and through
the Head of him the said John Pritchard< no role > , of which said Mortal Wound
he the said John Pritchard< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say, that the said John Pritchard< 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 Thomas Gale< no role > Foreman of
the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals, the Day Year and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
F. Gale Foreman