City & Liberty of
Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex To wit. }

In Inquisition indented taken for Our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Parish of St. Ann within the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of Westminster in the County of Middlesex the Twenty sixth Day of March in the Seventh 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, Etc. before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman Coroner of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said City & liberty on View of the Body of Stephen Gaudry
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Philip Acton< no role > , Francis Preston< no role > , John Bird< no role >
Hubert Hussey< no role > , Joseph Ellerbeck< no role > , Thomas Lewis< no role > , James Empson< no role > , John Tennant< no role > , Stephen Joyce< no role > , John Morpas< no role > , John
Sims< no role > , Thomas Goodwin< no role > , William Smyth< no role > , Berney Flyn< no role > , Edward Hammond< no role > , Andrew Max< no role > , John Cooley< no role > ,
Philip Astley< no role > , George Brown< no role > , Francis Lyon< no role > , William Powell< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > and Nicholas Merry< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty duly chosen as by law is required, and who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire
for Our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what Means the said Elizabeth Poole< no role >
came to h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Stephen Gaudry< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the said Twenty sixth day of Markin in the Year
aforesaid, in the Dwelling House of him the said Stephen Gaudry< no role > , situate and being in little
Newport Street , At the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, with a
certain Razor made of Iron and Steel, which he the said Stephen Gaudry< no role > then and there had and
held in his Right hand, the Throat or Gullet of him the said Stephen Gaudry< no role > , did then and
there strike, stab, and penctrate; thereby, then and there giving unto himself the said Stephen
Gaudry< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted as
aforesaid, with the Razor aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the said Stephen
Gaudry< no role > , one mortal wound, of the Length of four Inches, and of the Depth of one Inch
of which said mortal wound he the said Stephen Gaudry< no role > then and there instantly died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Stephen Gaudry< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill himself. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said Philip Acton< 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

Philip Acton< no role > Foreman