London
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Southwark }

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Saint
George within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eighth day of December in the thirtieth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender
of the Faith or 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 Covey now here lying dead by the oath of William Moor< no role > John Thacker< no role > William Townsend< no role >
Thomas Readle< no role > [..] Abel Clifton< no role > James Beverley< no role > Henry Mobsby Richard Marsh< no role > William Laurence< no role >
John Russell< no role > Thomas Wilson< no role > Thomas Parish< no role > and John Hillington good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark in
the County aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
has and in what manner the said Ann Covey came to her death say upon their oath that the said Ann Covey not
being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the seventh day of December in the year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid one end of a small Cord of no value
unto and about a certain Iron Screw find in the Wall of a certain Bed Chamber in the Dwelling house of one
Slifford in Mint Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid and the other end of the
said Cord unto and about her own Neck then and there did fix tye and fasten By one [..] whereof she the said Ann Covey< no role >
did hang Strangle and suffocate herself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation she the said Ann Covey< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Covey not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Moor< 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.

William Moor< no role > Foreman

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