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 Eighteenth day of January in the Twentieth 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
Thomas Ireland< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin
Boyden< no role > , Abraham Lyon< no role > , John Fairbeard< no role > , Thomas Metcalf< no role > , Andrew Smith< no role > , John
Blunt< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > , John Rhodes< no role > , Richard Suett< no role > , Thomas Fardley< no role >
Samuel Collett< no role > and William Windsor< no role > good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
chosen, who being then and there duty sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Thomas Ireland< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Ireland< no role > , Not
being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic
and distracted on the thirteenth day of January in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid in the
Dwelling House of Thomas Atkinson< no role > there situate with a certain Razor
made of Iron and Steel which he the said Thomas Ireland< no role > then and
there had and held in his Right Hand the Throat or Gullet of him
the said Thomas Ireland< no role > did then and there strike stab and
penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself the said
Thomas Ireland< no role > with the Razer aforesaid in and upon the Throat
or Gullet of him the said Thomas Ireland< no role > one mortal wound of the
Length of three Inches and of the depth of one Inch, of which said
mortal wound he the said Thomas Ireland< no role > from the said thirteenth day
of January in the Year aforesaid until the Seventeenth day of the
same Month and Year at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did live, on which said Seventeenth
day of January he the said Thomas Ireland< no role > of the Mortal wound aforesaid
there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Thomas Ireland< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory 7 understanding
but lunatic and discharge in Manner and by the means aforesaid did kill
himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Benjamin
Boydon< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the on 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 abovementioned.

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .
Benja Boydon< no role > Foreman