London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that is to say)
at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the twelfth day of September 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 Mary Mould< no role > now
here lying dead by the oath of James Arding< no role > Roger Devey< no role > William Gibson< no role > Matthew Dodd< no role >
John Miller< no role > James Coleman< no role > Thomas Bone< no role > Elizah Gillard< no role > Robert Griffith< no role > John Austin< no role >
James Hill< no role > James Nash< no role > Christopher Harrison< no role > Joseph Lavington< no role > Thomas Wilson< no role > William
Collins and Thomas Dolley< 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 Mary Mould< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that
the said Mary Mould< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted on the eleventh day of September in the year aforesaid one end of a certain
piece of Cord of no value unto and about a certain Iron Staple fixed in the wainscoat of a certain
room in the dwelling house of oneMoulds situate in the parish and ward aforesaid
in London aforesaid 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 Mary Mould< no role >
did then and there hang strangle and suffocated herself of which said hanging strangling
and suffocation the said Mary Mould< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Mould< 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 James Arding 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.

Verdict being lunatic
house hereof

James Arding< no role > [mark] Foreman