London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the twelfth day of January 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 George
Davis now here lying dead by the oath of John Evans< no role > Philip Evans< no role > William Castle< no role >
Robert Macdowell< no role > James Stock< no role > Robert Read< no role > Edward Beckley< no role > John Bush< no role > Ralph Monk< no role >
William Buckridge< no role > William Belcher< no role > Richard Benson< no role > and George Streeten 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
George Davis< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said George Davis< no role > on the
eighth day of January in the year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted at the parish of Saint James Clerkenwell
in the County of Middlesex with a certain pen knife of the value of one penny which
[..] the said George Davis< no role > in his right hand then and there had and held the neck and
throat of him the said George Davis< no role > with the pen knife aforesaid did then and there violently
cut giving to himself the said George Davis< no role > with the penknife aforesaid one mortal wound
in and upon the throat of him the said George Davis< no role > of which and mortal wound
he the said George Davis< no role > from the said eighth day of January in the year aforesaid until the
tenth day of the same month of January in the same year as well at the said parish of
Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex aforesaidwithout [..] as also at
the said parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon in the City of London
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live on which said tenth day of January
in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward Aforesaid in London aforesaid the said George
Davis of the said Mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said George Davis< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill
himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Evans< 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

John Evans< no role > [mark] Foreman