London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken in London aforesaid on the
twenty sixth day of July in the thirty third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the
Body of Thomas Arreskine< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of William Phillibrown< no role > John Haskew< no role >
John Lunson< no role > James Phillipson< no role > John Russell< no role > Edward Skinner< no role > Ambrose Eyre< no role > John Watson< no role > William
Ravelane Ambrose Sainsbury Thomas Walter< no role > James Parradise< no role > John Osbourn< no role > Samuel Hardy< no role >
Thomas Howard< no role > John Aleen William Marriott< no role > Bennett Swain< no role > Jonathan Millard< no role > Edward Nelson< no role >
James Booth< no role > and Richard Smart< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London 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 Thomas Arreskine< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Thomas
Arreskine not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on
the twenty fifth day of July in the year aforesaid at the pish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
one end of a certain piece of Cord of the value of one penny unto and about one of the beams of a
certain Shed belonging to and in the yard behind the dwelling house of one MrAbrahams< no role >
there situate and the other end of the said peice of Cord unto and about his neck die then and there
fix tye and fasten by means whereof he the said Thomas Arreskine< no role > did then and there hang
strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Thomas
Arreskine did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said Thomas Arreskine< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
did hand and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William
Phillibrown 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 above
written.

William Phillibrown [mark] Foreman< no role >