London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the Precinct of Saint Ann Blackfriars in the Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the first day of September in the thirty seventh year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Ball< no role > now here lying dead by the oath
of Thomas Rodbard< no role > , William Waterhouse< no role > , Henry Smith< no role > , Charles Child< no role > , Richard
Frances< no role > , James Russell< no role > , William Pritchard< no role > , Samuel Naish< no role > , Charles Moody< no role > , George
Hawkes,< no role > Walter Newbon< no role > , James Taylor< no role > , Robert Carrick< no role > , John Biggs< no role > , John Mosher< no role > , William
Simmons,< no role > and James Freeman< 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 Ball< no role > came to his death
say upon their Oath that the said William Ball< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the thirty first day of August in
the year aforesaid one end of a certain Cord unto and about the top of a certain Ladder
Standing and being in a certain chaise house there situate and the other end of the said
piece of Cord round and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten
by means whereof the said William Ball< no role > did then and there hang strangle and
suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said William
Ball did then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say
that the said William Ball< 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 Thomas Rodbard< 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

Thos Rodbard< no role > [mark] Foreman