London

An Inquisition Indented taken our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the Precinct of Saint Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the twenty fourth day of February in the thirty fifth year of the reign
of our Sovereign in 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 Whitworth< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Powell< no role > James Taylor< no role >
Edward Witham< no role > Samuel Nash< no role > Joseph Delafons< no role > John Turtle< no role > Thomas Shallard< no role > John
Fowler John Holmes< no role > James Pedther James Harrison< no role > Richard Mathews< no role > Ralph Wylde< no role >
John Odgers< no role > Thomas Freeman< no role > Charles Lisny John Hutchings< no role > George Pell Richard
Fenton and James Hook< 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 Robert Whitworth< no role > came to his death say
upon their oath that the said Robert Whitworth< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the twenty second day of February in the year aforesaid at the
parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord of no value
unto and about a certain Iron Staple fixed in the Ceiling in a certain room belonging to the dwelling
house of one Edward Holmes< 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 Robert Whitworth< no role > did then and
there hang strangle and suffocate himself by which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the
said Robert Whitworth< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath of
aforesaid do say that the said Robert Whitworth< 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 Powell< 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.

Willm Powell [mark] Formon