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 St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster in the County of Middlesex
the Eighteenth day of July 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 > Genleman Coroner of our said
Lord the King for the said City and Liberty. On View of the Body of Margaret Walters< no role > then and
there lying Dead, upon the Oath of John Jackson< no role > , John Payne< no role > , John Jones< no role > , Edward Jay< no role > , Jenkin Edwards< no role >
Solomon Rhodes< no role > , Charles Thorn< no role > , Richard Wallis< no role > , William Gibson< no role > , Martin Waddington< no role > ,
John Yallow< no role > , John Collins< no role > , and John Newman< 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 Margaret Walters< no role > came
to her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Margaret Walters< no role > (the Wife of James
Walters< no role > ) not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
Seventeenth day of July 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 Hook fastened into the Coiling
in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said Margaret Walters< no role > , in the Dwelling House of James
Walters< no role > her said Husband, situate and being in David Street, in the said Parish Liberty and County
and the other End thereof about her eyes Neck, did fix tye and fasten; and therewith did not
and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling
she the said Margaret Walters< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Margaret Walters< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid,
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, did
kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said John Jackson< 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

John Jackson< no role > Foreman