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 Clement Danes within the Liberty of the Dear
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the Twenty sixth day of May in the Sixth 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 Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord
the King for the said City and Liberty, On View of the Body of Mary Smith< no role > then and there lying
Dead, upon the Oath of John Greenwood< no role > , Joseph Lewis< no role > , John Langford< no role > , John Ireland< no role > , James Wegman< no role > , Dodd Cooke< no role > ,
Thomas Parsely, Thomas Easton< no role > , John Styles< no role > , Christopher Chapman< no role > , William Shergold< no role > , David Spears< no role > , William
Lawrence< no role > , John Davis< no role > , Benjamin Mayberry< no role > & John Harrison< 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 Mary Smith< no role > came to her
death do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Smith< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory
and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty fifth day of May in the Year
aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain
piece of small Cord unto an Iron Staple fastened into the Door Post in the Shop of her the said Mary
Smith< no role > , Situate and being 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, suffocated
and strangle herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling, she the said Mary
Smith< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say
that the said Mary Smith< 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 where of as well the said Coroner, as the said John Greenwood< 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
above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

John Greenwood< no role > Foreman