Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish
of Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the first
day of March in the thirty ninth 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 Edward Virgan< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of James Gowan< no role > , Joseph
York Hatton< no role > , Robert Pickup< no role > , George Squire< no role > , William Fox< no role > , [..] William Glenham< no role > , Thomas
Richerson< no role > , Thomas Now< no role > , Richard Thornton< no role > , Jacob Smith< no role > , Edward Harvey< no role > , Samuel
Watkins,< no role > William Little< no role > , & John Furner< no role > , good and lawful men of the Borough of
Southwark aforesaid in the 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 Edward Virgain< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Edward
Virgan on the twenty seventh day of February in the year aforesaid at the
parish aforesaid within the Borough and County aforesaid not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted one end of a piece of Rope
of no value unto and about a certain ladder in a loft in the during house of
William Berryman< no role > there situate and the other end of the said piece of Rope
round and about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means
whereof the said Edward Virgan< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate
himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said Edward Virgan< no role >
did then and there die.And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Edward Virgan< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himselfIn Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said James Gowan< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf
of himself ad the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set
their hands and seals the day year and place first abovewritten

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