London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid on the eighteenth day of June 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 Sarah Lewis< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Thomas Snape< no role > , William Morss< no role > , John Yeates< no role > , Evan
Lloyd< no role > , William John Brooks< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role > , James Dennison< no role > , John Camp< no role > ,
Thomas Whitaker< no role > , Samuel Brooks< no role > , Gerrard Willett< no role > , George Winterton< no role > , John Whale< no role >
Ebenezer Ashmore< 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 Sarah Lewis< no role > came to her death
say upon their Oath that the said Sarah Lewis< no role > on the sixteenth day of June in the
year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted and being in a certain two pair of stairs room in the dwelling house
of George Lewis< no role > situate in the Parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex did
violently cast and throw herself from and out of a certain window of the said room
down to and against the ground and stone pavement there by means whereof
the said Sarah Lewis< no role > did then and there receive one mortal wound in and upon
her head of which said mortal wound she the said Sarah Lewis< no role > as well at the
said Parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex as also at the abovementioned
Parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid did languish and languishing did live and on the same day and year
last aforesaid at the Parish last aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid
the said Sarah Lewis< no role > of the said mortal wound did die. and so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Sarah Lewis< no role > not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in
manner and by the means aforesaid did kill herself In Witness whereof as
well the said Coroner as the said Thomas Snape< 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.

Thomas Snape< no role > [mark]