London (to wit)

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the twenty seventh day of April in the thirty seventh 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 William Davis< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Birt< no role >
John Lawrence< no role > Henry Madgin< no role > John Edwards< no role > Richard Sims< no role > Isaac Ward John Purdon< no role >
John Bush< no role > Ralph Monk< no role > John Yeates< no role > William Brown< no role > John William< no role > Puckridge William Belcher< no role >
Robert Read< no role > and William Russell< 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 William Davis< no role > came to his death say upon
their oath that the said William Davis< no role > not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty sixth day of April in the
thirty seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > George the third King of Great
Britainyear aforesaid one end of a certain rope of no value unto and about a certain
Iron spike nail fixed in the Joists of a certain room in the dwelling house of
one there situate And the other end of the said rope round and
about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof
the said William Davis< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said William Davis< no role > did then
and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said William Davis< 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 William Burt< 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.

Wm Burt< no role > [mark] Foreman