London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Catherine Cree Church in the Ward of Aldgate
in London aforesaid on the thirty first day of March in the thirty eighth 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 Brough of Southwark on view of the body of Sarah Gascoigne< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of Charles Howell< no role > , John Howel< no role > , George Shuter< no role > ,
William Blackburn< no role > , Timstry Janson< no role > , Lewis Jones< no role > , James Davis< no role > , Thomas Chapman< no role >
Robert Wicksteed< no role > , Thomas Stracey< no role > , George Taylor< no role > , William Edmonds< no role > , Thomas Mapp< no role > , John
Lowden, Dexter Roberts, Benjamin Rankin< no role > , Abraham Howell< no role > , Robert Holland< no role > ,
Edward Ubley< no role > , and John Hurnall< no role > , good and lawful men of the City of London afsd
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 Sarah Gascoigne< no role > came to her
death say upon their oath that the said Sarah Gascoigne< no role > on the thirtieth day of
March in the year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value unto and about
the foot part of a certain bedstead in a room in the dwelling house of Robert Rayner< no role >
there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about her own
neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said Sarah Gascoigne< no role >
did then and there hang strangle and suffocate herself of which said hanging strangling
and suffocation the said Sarah Gascoigne< no role > did then and there die.And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Gascoigne< no role > not being of
sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and
Kill herself.In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Charles Howell< 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.

Chas Howell< no role > [mark] Foreman.