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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the
Parish of Saint Pancras Soper Lane in the Ward of Cheap in London aforesaid on the fifteenth day of December 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 Defender 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
on view of the Body of Ann Boarer now here lying dead by the oath of William Ellis< no role > , Jasper Cox< no role > , William Boucher< no role > , John
Slack, James Helling, Henry Best< no role > , Richard Starkey< no role > , Isaac Fawcett< no role > , George Booth< no role > Edward Lane< no role > , Thomas Tooley< no role > Joseph Read< no role > and
Samuel Chare 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 Ann Boarer came to her death say upon their oath that the
said Ann Boarer not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the thirteenth day of
December in the twenty ninth year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of a certain small piece of
Cord of no value to and about the Taller of a Bedstead in a certain Room in the Dwelling house of one Joshua Long< no role > there situate and
the other end of the said Cord round and about her own Neck did then and there fix tye and fasten By means whereof she the said
Ann Boarer did then and there hangle strangle and suffocate herself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation she the
said Ann Boarer did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Boarer and
being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did then and there hand and kill herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Ellis< no role > the 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.

Ann Ellis< no role > [mark] Foreman