London

In Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
Parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on
the twenty seventh day of August in the thirty fifth 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 Edward Hearne< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
Roger Devey< no role > Robert Cook< no role > Benjamin Lawrances< no role > Richard Arnold< no role > Thomas Odell< no role > John Riddle< no role >
Thomas Bowgin< no role > James Brett< no role > Arthur Allen< no role > Thomas Allen< no role > Thomas Franklin< no role > William Runciman
Charles Phelps< no role > William Collins< no role > and John Bollard< 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 Edward Hearne< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Edward Hearne< no role > 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
piece of Cord of no value unto and about the head post of a certain bedstead in a certain room belonging
to a certain dwelling hose of him the said Edward Hearne< no role > and the other end of the said piece of Cord
round and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said
Edward Hearne< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging
strangling and suffocation the said Edward Hearne< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward Hearne< 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 Roger Devey< 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.

Roger Devey [mark] Foreman