Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
Thomas within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the sixteenth 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 Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark
on view of the body of Ann Esther now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Hooker< no role >
Filer Hays< no role > Jeremiah Holliday< no role > John Davis< no role > Clark Luke Cannon< no role > John Carr< no role > Josiah
Maynard William Drew< no role > Thomas Graham< no role > Isaac Smith< no role > Thomas Crooks< no role > William Dolby< no role >
William Williams< no role > Robert Sangster< no role > John Lee< no role > and John Channer 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 Esther came
to her death say upon their oath that the said Ann Esther not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twelfth day of January in the year
aforesaid at the parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County aforesaid did throw herself
from and out of the window of a certain three pair of Stairs room in the dwelling house
of onePhillips there situate down to and against the ground and stone pavement
there by means whereof she the said Ann Esther did then and there receive one mortal
wound upon the back part of the head of her the said Ann Esther and also one
mortal bruise in and upon the right arm of her the said Ann Estherand also mortal
[..] of which said mortal wound and mortal bruise she the said Ann Esther< no role >
as well at the said parish of Saint Mary Rotherhithe in the County aforesaid as also at the
abovementioned parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough and County aforesaid from the
said twelfth day of January in the year aforesaid until the thirteenth day of the same
month of January in the same year did languish and languishing did live and on the day
and year last aforesaid at the parish last aforesaid within the Borough and County aforesaid the
said Ann Esther of the said mortal wound and mortal bruise did dieAnd so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ann Esther in manner and by
the means aforesaid came to her death and not otherwise.In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Hooker< 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.

Thomas Hooker< no role > [mark] Foreman