London

An Inquisition Indented taken taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Stephen Coleman Street in the Ward of Coleman Street
in London aforesaid on the thirteenth day of January in the thirty Sixth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Marsh< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of Benjamin White< no role > , Samuel Baths< no role > , Thomas Clark< no role > , Salter Fairhurst< no role > , John Aussell, Thomas
Johnstone, Thomas Hewlings< no role > , Thomas Howell< no role > , Robert Henderson< no role > , William Horton< no role > , Joseph
Kensitt, George Lilley< no role > , Richard Mayhew< no role > , James Marquis, Robert Read< no role > , Thomas Rowtt< no role >
James Roberts< no role > , John Sawer, Charles Thorpe< no role > , Richard Tyler< no role > , and John West< 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 Ann Marsh< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Ann Marsh< no role >
on the eleventh day of January in the year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted (and being confined in a certain hospital for the
Reception of Lunatics there situate called Bethlem Hospital) one end of a certain piece
of linen of no value unto and about a certain upwright bar of iron over the door of a certain
room in the said hospital and wherein she the said Ann Marsh< no role > then and there was
usually confined at night during the hours of rest to sleep in and the other end of
the said piece of linen round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten
by means whereof the said Ann Marsh< no role > did then and there hand strangle and suffocate
herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said Ann Marsh< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Ann Marsh< 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
Benjamin White< 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.

Benjm White [mark] Foreman