London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Bridget otherwise Bride's in the Ward of Farringdon without
in London aforesaid on the nineteenth day of July 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 John Hanson< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Benjamin
Barrett< no role > David Wood< no role > James Hill< no role > Philip Parkhouse< no role > Thomas Cotten< no role > Charles Whitehouse< no role >
James Bether< no role > George Whettley< no role > Duff Ray< no role > John Brown< no role > Thomas Bowgan< no role > William
Pitcher< no role > Edward Wilkinson< no role > George Boulton< no role > and David Bone 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 John
Hanson came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Hanson< no role > not
being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on
the eighteenth day of July in the year aforesaid one end of a certain cord of no
value unto and about a certain hook fixed in the Cieling of a certain room in the dwelling
house of there situate and the other end of the said Cord round
and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof
the said John Hanson< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said John Hanson< no role > did then and
there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
John Hanson< 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 Benjamin Barrett< 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 abovewritten.

Benjn Barrett< no role > [mark] Foreman