London

T. Shelton
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripplegate without in London aforesaid
on the first day of September 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 Mary Gillings now here lying dead by the oath of John Pake< no role >
John Field< no role > John Stephens< no role > Edward Burrows< no role > William Sargeson< no role > John Morgan< no role > John Humphreys< no role >
William Furton< no role > George Puckridge< no role > John Breakspear< no role > John Breashur Thomas Wright< no role > Andrew
Donaldson James Kickman David Sadler William Symons< no role > and Austin Mapleston< no role > 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 Mary Gillings< no role >
came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary Gillings not being of second mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty ninth day of August in the year
aforesaid one end of a certain Cord of no value unto and about [..] a hook in the Wall in a certain
room belonging to the dwelling house of one John Harrison< no role > there situate and the other end
of the said peice of Cord round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten
by means of which said lying and fastening she the said Mary Gillings then and there did
hang strangle and suffocate her of which said hanging strangling and suffocation she the said
Mary Gillings< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said Mary Gillings not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted did hang and kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Oake< 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
abovewritten.

John Oake< no role > [mark] foreman