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 John the Evangelist
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 January in the Thirty Second
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 George Whittall then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of John Randall< no role > , John Callington< no role > , Joseph Berry< no role > George Armstrong< no role >
Henry Hammond< no role > , John Brooker< no role > , John White< no role > , John Whittock< no role > , James Randall< no role >
Robert Waite< no role > , William Holton< no role > , James Sculthorp< no role > , John Baker< no role > , Charles
Taylor< no role > and Samuel Townshend< 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 George Whittall< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say That the said George Whittall not being of
Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted on the
Seventeenth day of January in the Year aforesaid in the said Parish of St.
John the Evangelist within the LIberty and County aforesaid One End of a certain Piece
of Cord unto the appartment of the Door base of the necessary House or Privey of Henry Fay< no role >
situate and being in the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid the other End thereof
about his own Neck did fix tie and fasten and therewith did then and there hang
Suffocate and strangle himself which said hanging Suffocation and Strangling
to the said George Whittall then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said George Whittall 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 John Randall< 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
John Randall< no role > Foreman