London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the parish of Saint Bennett Fink in the ward of Broad Street in London aforesaid
on the fifteenth day of July 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 John Evans< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
John Harris< no role > John Harbridge< no role > Duncan Mac Donald< no role > Thomas Boosey< no role > John Chowles William
Fountain John Stewart< no role > John Cooke< no role > Francis Jollitt< no role > Samuel Russell< no role > John Deshons< no role > Thomas Courtney< no role >
John Miles< no role > Giles Hanwell< no role > Edward Barton< no role > William Adams< no role > Thomas Paget< no role > and Daniel
Stewart 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 John Evans< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said
John Evans< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and
distracted on the fourteenth day of July in the year aforesaid one end of a certain
Cord of no value unto and about a certain viron hook which was tied to a certain bracket
belonging to a certain shelf in the dwelling house ofthere situate and
the other end of the said peice of Cord round and about his own neck did then and there
fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said John Evans< no role > did then and there hang strangle
and suffocate himself of which said hanging srangling and suffocation the said John Evans< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the
said John Evans< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted did hang and kill himself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said John Harris< 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.

John Harris< no role > [mark] Foreman