Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint John's within
the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the seventeenth day of March in the thirty fourth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Geat 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
Johnson now here lying dead by the Oath of John Nettleton< no role > Thomas Stephen< no role > James Tanner< no role >
Thomas Pearson< no role > John Nelson< no role > James Turner< no role > Henry Vanneher Walter< no role > Scott James< no role >
Moody David Keys John May< no role > James Brown< no role > George Smith< no role > and Thomas Archer< no role > good and
lawful men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid 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 Johnson< no role > came to his death say upon their Oath that the said Thomas Johnson< no role > not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the fifteenth day of March
in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid in the Borough aforesaid one end of a certain cotton Hankerchief
of the value a four penny unto and about a certain beam fixed in the Cieling in a certain dwelling house
there situate and the other end of the said hankerchief unto and about his own neck did then and there
fix tye & fasten by means whereof he the said Thomas Johnson< no role > did then and there hang strangle and
suffocate himself by which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said Thomas Johnson< no role > did then
and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Johnson< 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 [..] John Nettleton< 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 frist above written

John Nettleton< no role > Foreman