City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken Our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of Saint Margaretin the City of Westminster within the Liberty of the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster , in the County of Middlesex , the First day
of April in the Third 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 John Gale< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of Lewis Sulsh< no role > , James
Branian< no role > , William Luckie< no role > , John Cerron< no role > , William Lowdy< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Thomas Spearing< no role >
Abraham Terry< no role > , George King< no role > , Josiah Day< no role > , John Stone< no role > , Robert Score< no role > , William
Monk< no role > , and William King< no role > good and lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty duly
chosen, who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord, the King, when
how, and by what means the said John Gale< no role > came to his Death, do upon their Oath say,
That the said John Gale< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted, on the thirtieth day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the
City Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto one of the Rafters in
a Shed or Outhouse belonging to Mary Craven< no role > Widow, situate and being in the Broad Way within
the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof about his own Neck, did fix, tye, and
faster, and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself of which
said Hanging Suffocation and Stranding he the said John Gale< no role > then and there Died. And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Gale< 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 Lewis
Sulsh< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on 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 first above written

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Lewis Sulsh< no role > Foreman