London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as London (that
is to say) as the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate
in London aforesaid on the tenth day of April 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 Orme< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Thomas Cotterell< no role > James Berryman< no role > Henry Sargeant< no role >
William Hunt< no role > William Gifford< no role > Joseph Brock< no role > Benjamin Marshall< no role > John Buckerfield< no role >
William Blake< no role > John Harvey< no role > Benjamin Floaks< no role > Nisjohn Poole< no role > William Winginton< no role >
David Fowler< no role > Peter Langdale< no role > William Woodard< no role > William Tinims< no role > Christopher Nelson< no role >
and Joseph Reynolds< 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 thesaid Sarah Orme came to her death say
upon their oath that the said Sarah Orme not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted on the eighth day of April in the
year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value unto and about a certain piece
of Wood across the top of the one pair of stairs landing place in the dwelling house
of Joseph Orme 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 Orme< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate herself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation she the said Sarah Orme< no role > did then
and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the
said Sarah Orme 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 Thomas Cotterell< 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. Cotterell [mark] Foreman