London
and
Southwark }

T. Shelton
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the parish
of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twenty third day of September in the
thirtieth 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 William Hepworth< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of Peter White< no role >
Jonathan Perkin< no role > Jonathan Phithcon< no role > William King< no role > William Catchpole< no role > Henry Wetherhead< no role > John Blackett< no role > John Whales< no role >
William Brown< no role > john John< no role > Bush Ralph Monk< no role > James Freshfield< no role > Nathaniel Streat< no role > William Valentine< no role > John Dolphin< no role >
and James Crippen 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 William Hepworth< no role > came to his
death say upon their oath that the said William Hepworth< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the twenty third day of September in the year aforesaid one end of a certain small
peice of Cord of no villen unto and about the top of a certain door in a certain two pair of stairs Room situate in
the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid and the other end of the said piece of Cord unto and about his
own Neck then and there did he tie and fasten By means whereof he the said William Hepworth< no role > did hang
strangle and suffocate himself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said William Hepworth< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William Hepworth< no role >
not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means
aforesaid did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Peter White< no role > the
foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquistition
set their hands and seals the day and year & place first above written

Peter White< no role > [mark] Foreman