Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King as the parish
of Saint John within the Brough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eleventh
day of April in the thirty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain & 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 Mary Pritchard< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of John Ridge< no role > , John Brown< no role > , Charles Fenn< no role > , Thomas Still< no role > ,
Thomas Heritage< no role > , John Grinstead< no role > , William Clarke< no role > , John Hogg< no role > ; Thomas Naily< no role > , Thomas Wheeler< no role > ,
Thomas Davis< no role > , Henry Newman< no role > , William Rose< no role > , John Watts< no role > , Thomas Shott, and John Weldon< no role > ,
good and lawful men of the Brough of Southwark 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 Mary Pritchard< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary
Pritchard not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on
the ninth day of April in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no
value unto and about the foot part of a certain bedstead in the dwelling house of James
Pritchard 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 Mary
Pritchard did then an there hang strangle and suffocate herself of which said hanging
strangling and suffocation the said Mary Pritchard< no role > did then and there die. And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Pritchard< 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 John Ridge< no role > the
foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence
hand to this Inquistion set their hands and seals the day year and place first above
written.

John Ridge< no role > foreman
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