London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on
the twenty eighth day of August in the thirty fourth 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 Hapgut now here lying dead by the oath of George Peric< no role >
Leonard Pope< no role > Samuel Lacey< no role > Josiah Howell< no role > James Timbury< no role > Josiah Thompson< no role > Thomas McKenzie John
Rawson William Hale< no role > Thomas Farman William Cooper< no role > Thomas Hadland< no role > John Wicks< no role > William Green< no role >
and William Bush< no role > by good and lawful men of the City of London 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
Hapgut came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Hapgut not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty sixth day of August in the year aforesaid one
end of a certain Cord of no value unto and about the head post of a certain bed stead in the dwelling house of
Timother Bridger< no role > there situate and the other end of the said peice of Cord round and about his own
neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof he the said Thomas Hapgut did then and there
hang strangle and suffocate himself by means of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the
said Thomas Hapgut did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said Thomas Hapgut 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
George Pirie 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

George Pirie< no role > [mark] Forman