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

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King
at the Parish of Saint Jameswithin the Liberty of the
Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex ,
the Seventeenth day of March in the SixthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the
King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of Catherine Lamb< no role > then and there lying
Dead, upon the Oath of Samuel Blanch< no role > , William Scudder< no role > , Robert Waight< no role > , Henry Haynes< no role > ,
Robert Saunders< no role > , John Atkinson< no role > , James Baker< no role > , John Carver< no role > , George Gerrard< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > ,
John Brand< no role > , Thomas Berny< no role > , John Abbott< no role > , William Davis< no role > and John Spence< no role >
good and lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly chosen, 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
Catherine Lamb< no role > Came to her Death do upon their Oath say, That
the said Catherine Lamb< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the Sixteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid
within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord fastened
around a Wooden Rail over a Closet Door in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her
the said Catherine Lamb< no role > , situate and being in a certain place called Naylor's Yards,
in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other End thereof about her own neck
did fix, tye, and fasten, and therewith did then and there Hang, suffocate, and Strangle
herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling, she the said Catherine Lamb< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say
that the said Catherine Lamb< no role > , not being of sound Mind memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill
herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Samuel
Blanch< no role > 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 Year and Place first abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Sam Blanch< no role > foreman