City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquitition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapeter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of May 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
Elizabeth Burton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Ward< no role > , William Mansfield< no role > , Richard Peachey< no role > , Thomas Lambeth< no role > , William Pratt< no role > , Edward
Cook< no role > , John Marie< no role > , Thomas Ward< no role > , Joseph Wood< no role > , George Allen< no role > , John Ashley< no role > , and
John Neal< 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 Elizabeth Burton< no role > came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Burton< no role > laboring under a
grievous Disease of Body, to Wit a Fever, and by reason of the violence of the
said Disease, being Delirious and out of her Mind, on the Sixth day of May
in the Year aforesaid from and out of a certain two pair of Stairs Window
then and there being in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said
Elizabeth Burton< no role > situate in Sheppard Street in the Parish aforesaid within the
Liberty and County aforesaid, to the Ground, did violently cast an throw
herself, to and against the Stone Pavement in the Backyard; by Means
whereof She the said Elizabeth Burton< no role > , so delirious and out of her Mind
as aforesaid, did then and there receive one Mortal Wound and Fracture
in and upon the leftside of he Head, of which said mortal Wound and
Fortion she the said Elizabeth [..] died. and
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Elizabeth Burton< no role > , in Manner and by the Means aforesaid being delirious
and out of her Mind as aforesaid by reason of the violence of the Disease
aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner, as the said William Ward< no role > Forman 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
Wm Ward< no role > Foreman