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 Sixteenth day of September 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 Thomas Brown< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Greenfield< no role > , James Watson< no role > , Thomas Brown< no role > ,
Michael Rider< no role > , Stephen Lee< no role > , James Bossel< no role > , George Lewis< no role >
Walter Wheeler< no role > , William Harday< no role > , Samuel Prickard< no role >
Andrew Quisnell< no role > , John Dicker< no role > , Thomas Crouch< no role > , John Kendrick< no role > ,
and John Clark< 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 Thomas Brown< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Brown< 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 aforesaid, within the Liberty and County aforesaid, on End of a
certain peice of small Cord unto an Iron Staple fastened into the ceiling in
the lodging Room and Apartment of him the said Thomas Brown< no role >
in the dwelling house of Thomas Carlisle< no role > situate and being in the Parish,
Liberty, and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about his own
Neck did fire, tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there, hang
suffocate, and strangle himself of which said hanging suffocation
and strangling, he the said Thomas Brown< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say,
that the said Thomas Brown< 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 James Greenfield< 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 mentioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
James Greenfield< no role > [mark] Foreman