London
and
Southwark To wit

T Shelton
Corr. [mark]
exd.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London, that is to say, at
the Parish of Saint Bololph Bishopgate in the Ward of Board Street in London aforesaid on the eighteenth day of
February in the twenty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Depender of the Faith Etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for
the City of London and Borough of Southwark an view of the Body of Alexander Sharip< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of William Matthew Raikes< no role > , Joseph Nutt, Charles Stamforth< no role > William Morley< no role > James Morgan< no role > Andrew Johnson< no role > , John Yardley< no role > , John Paris< no role > ,
John Francis< no role > , John Theophilus Daubus Richard Tidwell< no role > Peter Whiteside< no role > , Robert Oliphant< no role > , William Pocock< no role > and
Christopher Puller< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged
to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Alexander Shairp came to his death say
when their oath that the said Alexander Shairp not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and directed
on the seventeenth day of February in the year aforesaid a certain Gun of the value of one shilling leaded with Gunpowder and
caden bullet which he the said Alexander Shairp in Cash his hands their and there had and held to at and against himself
then and then did shoot off and discharge Giving to himself then and their with the Caden Bullet aforesaid so shot off and
discharged from the said Gun by force of the Gunpowder aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the right side of the head of him the
said Alexander Shairp of the breadth of one Inch and of the depth of three Inches Of which said mortal wound he the said Alexander
Sharip did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Alexander Shairp not being
of sound mind memory and understanding best lunatic and districted in manner and by the man aforesaid did kill himself
In Witnesses whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Matthew Raikes the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself
and the rest of his Fellow in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first
above written

William Mathew Raikes< no role > [mark] Foreman