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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty ninth day of September in the twenty eighth
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 Edward Williams< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of George Wittich< no role > , Thomas Wanen< no role > , Joseph Smith< no role >
John Smith< no role > , John Dillion< no role > , William Cole< no role > , James-
Gladeston< no role > , George Nichols< no role > , Alexander Bissett< no role > , John Frazer< no role >
William Thomas< no role > , William Scott< no role > , Charles Rapley< no role > , William
Lesitar< no role > , and John Clubb< 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 Edward Milliams< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Edward Williams< no role > a
Cobler not being of sound Mind memory and Understanding but
Lunatick and distracted on th twenty eighth day of September in
the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of Cord unto an Iron
Staple fixed in one of the Rastures in the work Stall of him the
said Edward Milliams situate in Orange Court in the said Parish
of Saint Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County
aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own neck did firtie
and fasten and there with did then and there hang suffocate and
strangle himself of which said hanging suffocation and strangling
he the said Edward Milliams then and there died And so
the James aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Edward Milliams not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding but Lunatick and distracted in manner and
by the means aforesaid did kill himself

In Witness where of as well the
said Coroner as the said George Whittick< 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 abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

George Wittick< no role > Foreman