London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate in the Ward of
Aldersgate without in London aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of July 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 John Bucknell< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of John Brotherton< no role > John Bullock< no role >
Samuel Lloyd< no role > John Jones< no role > William Whillington< no role > James Pitney< no role > William Hill< no role > William
Larkin John Patt Nathaniel Glover< no role > Richard Draper< no role > Daniel Locker< no role > Edward Brown< no role >
Robert Wright< no role > and William Chidey 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 John Bucknell< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said John Bucknell< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty Seventh day of July
in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value unto and about a
certain iron hook fixed in the Wall of a certain room in the dwelling house of
John Motcalf< 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 tie and fasten by means
whereof the said John Bucknell< no role > did then and there hang strangle and Suffocate
himself of which said hanging strangling and Suffocation the said John
Bucknell did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said John Bucknell< 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 John Brotherton< 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.

J Brotherton [mark]