Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint Saviour within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty
seventh day of September 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 Borough of Southwark on view of
the body of Mary Purser< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Elliotson< no role > , John
Weaver< no role > , William Toothacre< no role > , John Barber< no role > , Thomas Stringer< no role > , Fitzherbert Alford< no role > , Jarvis
Armstrong,< no role > Hugh Gregg< no role > , Nathaniel Muggeridge< no role > , Thomas Harvey< no role > , James Sherrard< no role > ,
William Wilmott< no role > , John Gould< no role > , John Fall< no role > , Joseph Rowland< no role > , Thomas Ellis< no role > , James Wilmott< no role > ,
James Skirrow< no role > , John Newsome< no role > , William Burfort< no role > , Edward Seager< no role > , and Edmund Marsden< no role >
good and lawful men of the Borough and County 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 Purser< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary Purser< no role >
on the twenty sixth day of September in the year aforesaid at the parish and Borough aforesaid
in the County aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and
distracted with a certain pair of Scissars of the value of two pence which she the said
Mary Purser< no role > in her right hand then and there had and held did then and there violently
thrust the points of the said Scissars into the neck of her the said Mary Purser< no role > and did
thereby then and there give to herself the said Mary Purser< no role > one mortal wound in and
upon her neck of which said mortal wound the said Mary Purser< no role > did then and there die
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Purser< no role >
not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did kill
herself-In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Elliotson< 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

John Elliotson [mark] Forman