London

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Coroner

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at
London that is to say at the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the west in the
Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid on the twentieth 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
Stephen Flindall< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Richard Morley Antony
James John< no role > Wingrave Harry Smith Charles Delegal< no role > John Fidler< no role > James Yerworth< no role >
Francis Radford< no role > William Wheeler< no role > William Trewman< no role > James Holmes< no role > Charles
John Downes< no role > George Gouge< no role > Peter Carter< no role > William Barker< no role > William Hood< no role > William
Dewdney and Daniel Bennett 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 Stephen Flindall< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said Stephen Flindall< no role > not
being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
on the Nineteenth day of June in the thirty seventh year aforesaid one end of
a certain girth of no value unto and about a certain curtain pin fastened
in the wall of a certain room in the dwelling house of him the said Stephen
Flindall there situate and the other end of the said girth round and about his
own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said
Stephen Flindall< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said Stephen Flindall< no role >
did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Stephen Flindall< 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 Richard Morley< 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

Rd: Morly< no role > [mark]