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. Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of January in the Eleventh 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
Ann Wilson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Burford< no role > , Edward James< no role > , William Frecker< no role > , William Bell< no role > , William Thomas< no role >
John Shipman< no role > , Charles Thomas< no role > Thomas Moses< no role > , John Swallow< no role > , Thomas
Strahan< no role > , John Storr< no role > , Thomas Murthe< no role > , Anthony Hopkins< no role > and
Edward Thomas< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, 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 Ann Wilson< no role > came to
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on the
Thirtieth day of January in the Year aforesaid, one End of a Linnen
Handkerchief unto an Iron Hook fastened into a piece of Timber in
the Corrier of a certain Wooden Shed situate in St. James's Park within the
Parish of St. Margaret Westminster aforesaid, and the other End
thereof abour her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and there with
did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which
said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said Ann Wilson< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Ann Wilson< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic and distracted,
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did hill herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Thomas Burford< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of
himself and the rest of his 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

Thos. Burford< no role > Foreman