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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 Mary Aldermanbury in the Ward of Cripplegate
within in London aforesaid on the fourteenth day of July 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 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 Thomas Smith< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of James Webb< no role > , Philip Eldon< no role > , Thomas Baker< no role > ,
Edward Wylde< no role > , William Dodson< no role > , Richard Salter< no role > , John Chambers< no role > , John Meary< no role > , James Parker< no role > ,
John Ansden< no role > , Robert Roberts< no role > , Robert Dixon< no role > , Edward Chapple< no role > , Willm Room< no role > , George Gabb,
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 Thomas Smith< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Thomas
Smith not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the
thirteenth day of July in the Year aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord of the value of
1d unto and about the head post of a certain Bedstead in a certain room in the dwelling
house of [..] saidone Charles Wittle there situate and the other end of the said pence
of Cord unto and about his own neck dis then and there fix tye and fasten by means
whereof he the said John Norris< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Thomas Smith< no role > did then and
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath do say that the said Thomas Smith< 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 James
Webb 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.

James Webb< no role > [mark] Foreman