MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Matthew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of January in the twenty third Year of the Reign of
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Ann Pur [..] then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Peter Renvoize< no role > the Younger, Richard Rubey Richard Cheeseman Bartholomew Butterworth
Thomas Banfoot< no role > Pearman Harding< no role > Thomas Baker< no role > John Molfuson William
Blessed William Greenwood< no role > John Greenwood< no role > the Younger Thomas Featherstone< no role >
Leonard Privast< no role > Samuel So do Thomas Harrad< no role > and Peter Bredel< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Ann Purnem came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Ann Purnem not being of sound
Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted and being confined
as a Lunatic in the House of James Stretton situate in the Parish and County
aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Certain Rod in the Lodging Room or apartment
of her the said Ann Purnem in the said House and the other End thereof about her
own Neck Did fix tye and fasten And therewith did then and there have suffocate
and strangle herself Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said
Ann Purnum< no role > then and there diedAnd so the Jurors aforesaid in for their Oath aforesaid
Do say That the said Ann Purnem not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding [..] distracted in Manner and by the [..] Did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Peter Renvoize< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Renvoize Junr. [mark] Foreman