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 Nineteenth day of August in the twenty fifth
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 Masters< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Ashmore< no role > , Joseph Wathers< no role > , Christopher Hawkes< no role > ,
James Phipps< no role > , Edward Johnes< no role > , John Musgrave< no role > , John White< no role >
Thomas Wilkinson< no role > , Lewes Sulsh< no role > , William Booth< no role > , William
Feryer< no role > , and Elkanah Hoyle< 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 Masters< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said William Masters< no role > not being
of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted on the seventeenth Day of August in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, One End of
a certain piece of small Cord unto a wooden newell upon the Stairs in the
dwellinghouse of him the said William Masters< no role > situate and being in Ship
Yard in the said Parish Liberty, and County, and the other End thereof
about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did therwand
there hang, suffocate, and strangle himself of which said Hanging,
Suffocation, and Strangling, he the said William Masters< no role > from the said
seventeenth day of August in the Year aforesaid, untill the eighteenth day
of the same Month at the Parish and in the Liberty, and County,
aforesaid, languished and lived, and thereof on the eighteenth day of
August aforesaid, there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said William Masters< 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 Joseph Ashmore< 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, above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jos: Ashmore< no role > [mark] Foreman