Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of Saint
Martin in the Fields within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint
Peter at Westminster the Seventeenth day of September in the thirty fourth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
Defender of the faith and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty
Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of
Westminster aforesaid. Upon a Veiw of the Body of Katherine Plunkett< no role > then and there lying Dead
by the Oaths of William Gresham< no role > James Mattock< no role > , James Morris< no role > , Francis Wilborn< no role > , Charles Lowthen< no role >
Andrew Thomas< no role > , Charles Lowndes< no role > , Morgan Rice< no role > , Robert Steel< no role > , John Goringe< no role > , Richard Manley< no role > John
Jackson< no role > , George Stanner< no role > , John Grace< no role > and Peter Poe< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of
the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King how
when, where, and in what manner the said Katherine Plunkett< no role > came to her Death, say upon them
Oaths. That on Tuesday the Sixteenth day of September Instant the said Katherine Plunkett< no role > being alone
between the hours of three and four in the Afternoon of the some day in her Lodging Loom in the
Dwelling House of Hugh Rorke< no role > situate in Jacksons Alley in the Parish of Saint Martin in the
fields in the Liberty and County aforesaid and not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but Lunatick and Distracted a certain Cord into her hands did take and one part thereof round
her Neck did put and place and the other part thereof round an Iron hook fastned in the Window
frame of the said Room did put round lye and fasten by means of which putting placing tying and
fastning as aforesaid the said Katherine Plunkett herself did hang and strangle by means of
which hanging and strangling as aforesaid the said Katherine Plunkett then and there instantly
Died. And so the said Jurors upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that the said Katherine Plunkett< no role >
the day and Year aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid by
her Death came and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Foremen
of the Jurors aforesaid have to this Inquisitions put their hands and Seals the day Year and at the
place aforesaid

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner

Wm. Grayen< no role > Foreman