London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that
is to say at the parish of Saint Botoloph without Bishopsgate in the ward of Bishopsgate withoutin
London aforesaid on the fifteenth day of October 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 Mary Greer< no role > now here lying
death by the Oath of John Hovatt< no role > , Richard Kerr< no role > , Joseph Essex< no role > , William Bartholomew< no role > , William
Battersby, John Collman, William Buckstone< no role > , Timothy Elsam< no role > John Ruler< no role > , James Ward< no role >
James Pike< no role > , John Curtis< no role > , John Wayland< no role > ,John George Heginbotham< no role > , John Farmer< no role > , David Storling< no role >
George Winn< no role > , Joseph Pearman< no role > , Joseph Collier< no role > , and Francis Dunbavin< no role > good and lawful men
of the City of London aforesaid who being now here now here duly Chosen sworn and charged to
Inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Mary Greer< no role >
came to her death say upon their Oath that the said Greer not being of second mind
Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted on the ninth day of October in the
Year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did drink and
Swallow a great Quantity of deadly Poison called Unguentum Alverum by means whereof
she the said Mary Greer< no role > then and there became and was mortally sick and diseased in
her body of which said mortal Sickness and disease she the said Mary Greer< no role > from the said
ninth day of October in the Year aforesaid until the twelfth day of the same month of
October in the same year did languish and languishing did live On which said twelfth
day of October in the Year aforesaid side parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid the said Mary Greer< no role > of the said Sickness and disease
did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Greer< no role >
not being of sound mind Memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in
manner and by the means aforesaid did poison and Kill herself In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said John Hovatt< 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 abovewritten.

John Hovatt [mark] Foreman