Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the parish
of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the fourteenth day of August
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 Robert Barron< no role >
now here lying dead by the Oath of Alexander Sheppard< no role > Job Pritchard Thomas Ruck Thomas
Place Robert Robertson< no role > Richard Cheesman William Bennett< no role > Thomas Walker< no role > Hans Clausson< no role >
Christopher Clark< no role > Thomas Parsons< no role > Dennis Cotterell< no role > Thomas Pawson< no role > and James Heale good
and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark 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 Robert Barron< no role > came to his death say upon
their Oath that the said Robert Barron< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted on the thirteenth day of August in the year aforesaid at the parish and Borough
afsd in the County aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value into and about a certain view
hook fixed in the door post of a certain washhouse of and belonging to the dwelling house of him [..]
Robert Barron< no role > there situate [..] and the other end of the said peice Cord unto and about his own neck did
then and there fix tye and fasten by means where of he the said Robert Barron< no role > did then and there
hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said
Robert, Barron did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid to
say that the said Robert Barron< no role > 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 Alexander Shephard< no role > 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.

Alexander Shenknd [mark] Forman