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 fourth day of September 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 Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough
of Southwark on view of the body of Mary Allen< no role > by now here lying dead by the
oath of Edward Wright< no role > Whitcomb Edmund Smith< no role > Thomas Langford< no role > Edward Smith< no role >
William King< no role > Calob Ashman< no role > George Finch< no role > Blades Pallister Charles Phillips< no role > William Skinner< no role >
James Ramsden< no role > Philip Evans< no role > Erasmus Jones< no role > Charles Haskins< no role > William Benson< no role >
John Summers< no role > Richard Llewin< no role > Thomas Blake< no role > Thomas Ladd< no role > and George Shealey< 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 Mary Allenby< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Mary
Allenby not being of found mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
on the Second day of September in the year aforesaid at the parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the
County of Middlesex with a certain large Knife of the value of six pence which She in her right hand
had and held the neck and throat of herself the said Mary Allenby< no role > with the Knife
aforesaid did then and there violently cut giving to herself the said Mary Allenby< no role >
with the Knife aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the throat of her the
said Mary Allenby< no role > of which said mortal wound she the said Mary Allenby< no role >
on the said Second day of September in the year aforesaid as well at the said Parish
of Saint James Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex as also at the aforesaid parish
of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid did languish
and languishing did live on which said Second day of September in the year aforesaid
the said Mary Allenby< no role > at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid of the
said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Mary Allenby< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted did in manner and by the means aforesaid kill herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Edward Wright Whitcomb< 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.

Ed. Whitcomb< no role >