London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Botolph with Aldgatein the Ward of Aldgate in
the Ward of Portsoken in London aforesaid on the second day of January in the
thirtyseventhsixth 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 Catherine
Levi< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Giles Russell< no role > Thomas Hunter< no role > William
Percivall Edward Savage< no role > Walter Nuttall< no role > John Robinson< no role > Richard Hillum< no role > John Taylor< no role >
James Ham< no role > Thomas Burrows< no role > John Harris< no role > Thomas Southgate< no role > Whiston Whaley< no role > John
Simpson< no role > Henry Abbott< no role > Durham Sharp< no role > & George Allsopp 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 Catherine Levi< no role >
came to her death say upon their oath that the said Catherine Levi not being of
sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the first
day of January in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value
unto and about a certain Iron nail fixed in the Wainscot of a certain room in
the dwelling house of there situate and the other end of the
said piece of Cord round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and
fasten by means whereof the said Catherine Levi did then and there hand strangle
and suffocate herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said Catherine
Levi< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do
say that the said Catherine Levi 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 Giles Russell< 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.

Giles Russell< no role > [mark] Foreman