London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the king at London
(that is to say) at the Parish of Saint Mary at Hill in the Ward of Billinsgate in London
aforesaid on the eleventh day of August 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 Rand< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Redpath< no role >
William Kent< no role > William Hornsby< no role > John Deane< no role > Thomas Drake< no role > Thomas Mankin< no role > John Hall< no role >
James Kimber< no role > Samuel Brown< no role > Robert Burch< no role > John Keen< no role > Richard Blackman< no role > Barnaby Dunn< no role >
William Byford< no role > and John Freer< 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 Rand< no role > came to his death say upon their oath
that the said William Rand< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted on the tenth day of August in the year aforesaid at the Parish and
Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid with a certain Razor of the value of six pence which he
the said William Rand< no role > in his right hand then and there had and held the neck and
throat of him the said William Rand< no role > with the Razor aforesaid did then and there
violently cut giving to himself the said William Rand< no role > with the [..] Razor aforesaid one
mortal wound in and upon the throat of him the said William Rand< no role > of which said mortal
wound he the said William Rand< no role > did then and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their oath aforesaid do say that the said William Rand< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid
did kill himselfIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William
Redpath 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. Redpath< no role > [mark] Foreman