Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark on the ninth day of February 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 George Street now here lying dead by the Oath of [..]
Thomas Shott< no role > Daniel Wigmore< no role > Stephen Messiard< no role > Thomas Heath< no role > John Thomas< no role > Henry
Coroner John Turner< no role > William Haycock< no role > Thomas Jackson< no role > Jonathan Gains< no role > Joseph Dormer James
Burges James Powell< no role > and Charles Strand good and lawful men of the City of London who being
nowhere duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when
how and in what manner the said George Street came to his death say upon their
Oath that the said George Street on the seventh day of February in the year aforesaid
not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted at the parish
aforesaid in the Borough aforesaid one end of a certain price of Cord of no value unto and
about a certain Door in a certain room in the dwelling house of him the said George Street< no role >
situate in the parish and Borough aforesaid and the other end of the said price of Cord unto and
about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof he the said
George Street< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging
strangling and suffocation he the said George Street did then and there die And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said George Street 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 Thomas Shott
the foreman of the 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.

Thos. Shott [mark] Foreman