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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Seventh day September in the Twenty first 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
Jonathan Bingley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Scott< no role > , Richard Manson< no role > , John Dunford< no role > , Anthony Fabrie< no role > ,
William Ashdon< no role > , Henry Ayrey< no role > , James Plaister< no role > Matthew Hill< no role > ,
William Absolom< no role > , William Mourn< no role > , William Woods< no role > and
Aaron Loton< 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 Jonathan Bingley< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath Say that the said Jonathan Bingley, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of
August in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain
Knife made of Iron and Steel which he the said Jonathan Bingley
had and held in his Hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the
said Jonathan Bingley< no role > did then and there strike Stab and
penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself with
the Knife aforesaid in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him
the said Jonathan Bingley< 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 Jonathan Bingley at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid from the
said Twenty seventh day of August until the Sixth day of September
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which
said Sixth dy of September he the said Jonathan Bingley of the
mortal Wound aforesaid there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do says, that the said Jonathan Bingley not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick &
In Witness whereof as well the said Corner, as the said Thomas Scott< no role >
Foreman of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Thos Scott Foreman