London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to
say at the parish Saint Botolph without Bishopsgate in the ward of Bishopsgate without
in London aforesaid on the tenth day of September 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 for our said
Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of Edward
Smart now here lying dead by the Oath of Joseph Harris< no role > , Jospeh Nicholls, John Dobson< no role > ,
Humphrey Guest< no role > , Jonathan Briggs< no role > , Samuel Nash< no role > , Samuel Richards< no role > John Johnson< no role > ,
Edward Priddle< no role > James Swain< no role > John Beaumont< no role > , Richard Killerby< no role > , William Williams< no role > , Francis
Measam, Matthew Tripcony< no role > , John Dawsey< no role > , William Carridge< no role > , William Bird< no role > , John Beard< no role > ,
and Joshua Cook< no role > , 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 Edward Smart< no role > came to his death say upon then Oath that the said Edward
Smart not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on
the seventh day of September in the year aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord of
the value of one penny round and about a certain Iron took fixed to a certain beam in the
Cieling of a certain room belonging to the dwelling house of the said Edwards [..] there
Situate and the other end of the said Peice of Cord unto and about his own neat did then and
there fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said Edward Smart< no role > did then and there
hang strangle and suffocate himself by means of which said hanging Strangling and suffocation
he the said Edward Smart< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward Smart< no role > not being of sound mind mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Joseph Harris< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the
rest of his fellows in this presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and
[..] place first above written.

Joseph Harris< no role > [mark] Foreman