London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
London (that is to say) at the Parish of Saint Surthin in the Ward of Walbrook in London
aforesaid on the third day of June 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 Thomas Wood< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Bell< no role > Thomas Wall< no role > Robert Wright< no role > Samuel
How John Philpott< no role > William Clark< no role > Matthew Sheffield< no role > John Taylor< no role > Richard Butler< no role > William
Phillips Abraham< no role > Opey William Sergeant< no role > and Thomas Margray 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 Thomas
Wood came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Wood< no role > on the second
day of June in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
being sick and diseased in his body and delirious and not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted with a certain clasp knife of the value
of one penny which he in his right hand then and there had and held the throat
of himself the said Thomas Wood< no role > did then and there violently cut thereby giving to
himself the said Thomas Wood< no role > one mortal wound in and upon his throat of which said
mortal wound he the said Thomas Wood< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Wood< no role > being sick and delirious as
aforesaid and not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and
distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself.In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Bell< 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.

Thomas Bell< no role > [mark] Foreman