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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord< no role > the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Mary Abchurch in the Ward of Candlewick in London aforesaid on the
third day of July in the thirty second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George George< no role > the third
by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith and so forth
before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner for our said Lord the King for the City of
London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of William Blake< no role > now here lying dead
by the Oath of Richard Moss< no role > , John Morris< no role > , George Cawthorne< no role > , John Walker< no role > , James Lavington< no role > ,
Robert Tipler< no role > , David Crichton< no role > , Arthur Cramond< no role > , John Bowen< no role > , John Ivy< no role > , Samuel Ireland< no role > ,
William Noyes< no role > , William Clark< no role > , & Thomas Babington< no role > , good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid
who being now here duty chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our Lord the King
when how and in what manner the said William Blake< no role > came to his death say upon
their Oath that the said William Blake< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
[..] lunatic and distracted on the first day of July in the year aforesaid one end of
a certain peice of Cord [..] of the value of one penny round and about a certain Iron
hook fixed in the Wainscott of a certain room in the dwelling house of him the said
William Blake< no role > there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord unto and about his own neck did then and there
fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said William Blake< no role > did then and there
hang strangle and suffocate himself by means of which said hanging strangling and
suffocation he the said William Blake< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William Blake< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself In
Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Moss< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellow in their presence have to this Inquisition
set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written.

Richd. MossForerman