London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen in the Ward of Castle baynard
in London aforesaid on the twelfth 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 Richard Padget< no role > now here lying
dead by the oath of George Brown< no role > , James Melvin< no role > , Daniel Allen< no role > , Stephen Chapman< no role > ,
Joseph New< no role > , Joseph Bunkar< no role > , Charles Rowley< no role > , Charles Burnett< no role > , John Pearce< no role > , Robert
Brinyard,< no role > John Anderson< no role > , Benjamin Marchant< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , and John Gammon< 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 Richard Padget< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that
the said Richard Padget< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted on the eleventh day of April in the year aforesaid at the
parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord
of no value unto and about a certain hook fixed in a beam in the Cellar of the dwelling
house of him the said Richard Padget< no role > 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 Richard Padget< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging
strangling and suffocation he the said Richard Padget< no role > did then and thew die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Richard Padget< 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 George Brown< 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.

George Brown< no role > [mark]