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 Paul Covent Garden within the Liberty of the
Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of
Middlesex the Twenty sixth day of March in the SixthYear of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defen-
-der 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 Elizabeth Saunders< no role > (late the Wife of Michael Saunders< no role >
then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of William Kendrick< no role > , Thomas Young< no role > , William Shatlock< no role > , Francis Tuder< no role > , John Wright< no role >
Robert Broadbelt< no role > , John Jones< no role > , William Griffin< no role > , John Farrell< no role > , John Hunt< no role > , Hugh Higgins< no role > , John Singleton< no role > , Thomas Jones< no role > , John Kirk< no role >
Joseph Belmond< no role > , William Williams< no role > , Thomas Stanley< no role > , John Cook< no role > , Charles Sheppard< no role > and Robert Whitehead< 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
Elizabeth Saunders< no role > Came to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth
Saunders< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracked,
on the Twenty fifth 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 over the top of a Closet
Door in the Lodging Room of her the said Elizabeth Saunders< no role > , situate and being in Russell
Street in the said Parish Liberty and [..] and the [..] thereof about [..]
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
Elizabeth Saunders< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid, do say, that the said Elizabeth Saunders< no role > , not being of sound Mind, Memory, and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,
did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said William
Kendrick< 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 .

Willm. Kenderick Foreman