Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of
Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty fourth
day of December in the thirty sixth 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 Archer< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Grier< no role > Robert
Pickup Thomas Bastin Joseph Norton< no role > Richard Jones< no role > John Wood< no role > Samuel Watkins< no role >
William Glanham< no role > John Winter< no role > William Cook< no role > William West< no role > John Davidson< no role > & George
Squires good< no role > and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the County 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 Archer< no role > came to his death say upon their
oath that the said Edward Archer< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted on the twenty second day of December in the year aforesaid one end of a
certain silk handkerchief unto and about a certain nail in the Cieling over certain stairs
in the dwelling house of him the said Edward Archer< no role > there situate and the other
end of the said [..] hankerchief round and about his own neck did then and
there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said Edward Archer< no role > did then and there
hang strangle and suffocate himself by which said hanging strangling and
suffocation he the said Edward Archer< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Edward Archer< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and undertaking but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Grier< 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.

Thomas Grier< no role > [mark] Foreman