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 Ann within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty
seventh day of June, 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 Hester Heerlin< no role > then and there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Gerard< no role >
Reynold Grignion< no role > , William Barber< no role > , John Tennant< no role > , Paul Callerd< no role > , Francis Lyon< no role > , George Weldon< no role > , Thomas Hart< no role > , John Bullock< no role > ,
Alexander Tate< no role > , Jeremiah Nicholas< no role > , William Paul< no role > , John Bird< no role > , Walter Banister< no role > , Samuel Jackman< no role > , Robert Rumford< no role > William
Leader< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > , John Hodgson< no role > , and William Stephenson< no role > , good and lawful 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 Hester Heerlincame to her Death, do upon the
Oath say, That the said Hester Heerling, not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding
but lunatic and distracted, on the Twenty sixth day of June in the Year aforesaid, at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, into a certain Wooden Tub containing
a great quantity of Water, standing and being in the Dwelling House of her the said Hester Heerlin,
in the said Parish Liberty and County, did cast and throw hereself; by Means of which said
casting the throwing she the said Hester Heerlin in the Water in the said Tub, was then
and there Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowing, She the said
Hester Heerlin then and there instantly died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Hester Heerlin in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, did
drown and hill herself. In Wintness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
John Gerard< 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 Inquistion set their Hands and Seals the Day Year
and Place first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

John Gerard< no role > Foreman