T. Shelton Cor.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
Psh of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the fifteenth day of
July 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 William Crocker< no role > now here
lying deced by the Oath of Richard Benson< no role > Jonathan Perkins< no role > Ralph Monk< no role > Robert Read< no role > John Dawson< no role >
William Belcher< no role > Thomas Taylor< no role > William Griffiths< no role > Thomas Whitford< no role > John Goater< no role > John Beal< no role > John Evans< no role > and William
Muston good and lawful man of the City of London who being now have duly chosen sworn and charged to
inquire for our sd Lord the King when how and in what manner the said William Croker< no role > cause to his death
say upon their Oath that the sd William Croker< no role > on the fourteenth day of July in the year aforesaid being
in a certain Chamber on the third floor of the dwelling of [..] William Ralfe situate and being in
the parish of Saint Luke within the County of Middlesex and not being of Sound mind memory and Landing [..]
but lunatic and distracted violently did throw and cast himself from and out of the said Window of the said Chamber
to and against the ground there by means whereof he the said William Crocher< no role > did then and there receiving
several mortal wounds and bruises in and upon the Body of him the sd William Crocker< no role > of which said
mortal wound and bruises he the said William Crocker< no role > as well at the sd Parish of St Leshey
in the County of Middlesex as also at the sd parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward
aforesaid in the City of London aforesaid did languish and languish [..] did live and at the parish
last aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid the said William Crocher< no role > of the said mortal wound, and
bruises did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said William
Crooker not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted [..]
in manner and by the means afsd did kill himself - In Witness whereof as well the
said Coroner as the said Richard Benson< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself
and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquon set their hands and seals the day
year and place first above written.

Thos. Benson< no role >