Southwark
Thomas Shelton< no role >
Coroner
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King atthe Parish of
Saint Saviour within
the Borough
of Southwark
in the County of Surrey
on the sixteenth day of
October
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 Ann Sairell now here lying dead by the oath of
James Willis< no role >
John Wigman< no role >
John Brown< no role >
John Putley< no role >
James Barton< no role >
John Bull< no role >
Nathan Vezey< no role >
Matthew Clay< no role >
Thomas Lodge< no role >
Samuel Harrison< no role >
John Tomes William
Bankes Alexander Coggill
Jarvis Harmestronge< no role >
Hugh Griegg< no role >
and
Michael Ellis< 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
Ann Saville< no role >
came to her death say upon their oath that the said
Ann Saville< no role >
not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the said sixteenth day of October in the year aforesaid at the parish aforesaid within the Borough
of Southwark
aforesaid in the County aforesaid one end of a certain
piece of Cord of no value unto and about certain grating in the Cieling of a certain Cellar
in the dwelling house of
George Hancock< no role >
there situate and the other end of the said piece
of Cord round and about here own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means
whereof the said
Ann Saville< no role >
did then and there hang strangle and suffocate herself of
which said hanging strangling and suffocation she the said
Ann Saville< no role >
did then and
there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Ann Saville< no role >
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 James
Willis 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.
James [mark] Willis< no role >