London

An Inquisitions Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Faith under Saint Paul in the Ward of Farringdon written
in London aforesaid on the twenty first day of December in the thirty third [..] 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 Christopher Norris< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of
Joseph Twigg, Dudley Johnson< no role > , John Lewis< no role > , John Collins< no role > , Timothy Roshwick< no role > , Edward Goff< no role > , Samuel Hall< no role > ,
Thomas Pierson< no role > , James Baxter< no role > , Thomas Hutchins< no role > , William Allison< no role > , John Huagan< no role > , Thomas Blewill,
Joseph Eckford< no role > , Thomas Remnant, Mortin Platts< no role > , David White< no role > , John Payne< no role > , Richard Jones< no role > , and
John Tuck< 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 Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Christopher Norris< no role >
came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Christopher Norris< no role > not being of sound
mind mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the nineteenth day of December
in the year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of a certain piece of
Cord of no value unto and about a certain Wooden railing belonging to a certain Cupboard in a room
belonging to the house of the said Christopher Norris< no role > situate in the parish & Ward aforesaid
and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about his own neck did then and there Fix
tye and fasten by means whereof he the said Christopher Norris< no role > did then and there hang
strangle and suffocate himself of which said Hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Christopher
Norris did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath do say that the said
that the said Christopher Norris< no role > being aforesaid mind memory and understanding, but
lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Joseph Twigg< 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

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written.

Josh Twigg< no role > [mark] Foreman