London
An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at
the Parish of Saint Gregory by Saint Pauls
in the Ward of Castlebaynard
in London aforesaid
on the seventh day of June in the thirty seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the third King of Great Britain Etc
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
Elizabeth
Miller< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of
William Norris< no role >
Henry Young< no role >
John
Wallis< no role >
John Bleuler< no role >
Richard James< no role >
Henry Shuttleworth< no role >
John Lawrence< no role >
John Todd< no role >
Thomas
Simpson< no role >
Robert Morris< no role >
John Cooper< no role >
John Brown< no role >
John Wheatly< no role >
Thomas Carr< no role >
Joseph
Herbertson< no role >
George Weatherfield< no role >
and
John Bennet< 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
Elizabeth Miller< no role >
came to her death
say upon their oath that the said
Elizabeth Miller< no role >
on the fifth day of June in the year
aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid violently did cast and throw herself
from and out of a certain window on the attic story of the dwelling house of
Lawrence and Follands there situate down to and against the ground there by
means whereof the said
Elizabeth Miller< no role >
did then and there receive one mortal wound and
contusion in and upon the head of her the said
Elizabeth Miller< no role >
of which said mortal
wound and contusion the said
Elizabeth Miller< no role >
did then and there instantly die. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Elizabeth Miller< no role >
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
William Morris< 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 Morris< no role >
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Foreman