London

To Shelton
Corr.

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An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Loud the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the twentieth 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 John Gromant now here lying dead by the Oath of Edward Batham< no role > This name instance is in set 2247. , Richard
Whiteaves, Arthur< no role > Scaife , Robert Smith< no role > , Thomas Oliver< no role > James Wiar Crawford< no role > ,
Richard Mellison Asby, John Pike< no role > , Joseph Hanbury< no role > , Edward Sherratt< no role > , John Stapleton< no role > , James
Campbell, William Painter< no role > , Samuel Graves< no role > , James Holmes< no role > , Charles Delegall, and James
Wright 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 John Gromant came to his death say upon their Oath that
who said John Gromant not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the nineteenth day of July in the year aforesaid
one end of a certain peice of Cord unto and about a certain Iron Staple fixed in
the Wall in a certain room belonging to the dwelling house of one Richard Deeme< no role >
there situate and the other end of the said paace of Cord round and about his own
neck did then and there fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said John
Gromant did then and there hang and strangle and suffocate himself by Means of
which said hanging Strangling he the [..] John Gromant did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said John Gromant
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 Edward Beetham< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf
of himself and the rest of his fellows have in their presence to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place
first above written.

Edward [mark] Beetham< no role >