Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
John within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twentieth 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 Thomas Strong< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of William Grevison< no role > Thomas Edmunds< no role >
Nathaniel Mallett< no role > George Davis< no role > William Bororing< no role > George Thompson< no role > John Mercydeth Thomas
Gryer Samuel Watkins< no role > John Ross< no role > Joseph Cross< no role > James Judd< no role > and John Powell< 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 Strong< no role > came to his death say
upon their Oath that the said Thomas Strong< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the eighteenth day of August in the year aforesaid at the parish of St Olave within
the Borough of Southwark in the County afsd one end of a certain peice of Cord of no value unto and about a
certain Beam< no role > belonging to the Garrett in the dwelling house of one Edward Spaughton< no role > there situate and the other end of the said
peice of Cord unto and about his own neck did then and there fix tie and fasten by means whereof he
the said Thomas Strong< no role > did hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said Hanging strangling and
suffocation he the said Thomas Strong< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Strong< 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 William Grievson< 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.

Wm [mark] Grievson< no role >