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 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 Thirteenth day of March in the Twelfth 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
Jane Vialls< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Wade< no role > , William Davis< no role > , Thomas Baynes< no role > , William Brooks< no role > , Thomas Mason< no role > , John
Monday< no role > , Samuel Gould< no role > , John Edmondson< no role > , Joseph Constantine< no role > , James Martin< no role > John
Johnson< no role > , George Trigere< no role > and James Urquhart< 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 Jane Vialls came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Jane Vialls, not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
Eleventh day of March in the Year aforesaid at the Parish of St. John
the Evangelist within the Liberty and County aforesaid with a certain Clasp'd
Knife, made of Iron and Steel, which she the said Jane Vialls then and there
had and held in her Right hand, the Throat or Gullet of her the said
Jane Vialls did then and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby,
then and there giving unto herself with the Knife aforesaid, in
and upon the Throat or Gullet of her the said Jane Vialls one mortal
Wound, of the Length of two Inches and of the depth of One Inch,
of which said mortal Wound she the said Jane Vialls languished
about three Hours, and on the said Eleventh day of March in the Year
aforesaid she the said Jane Vialls at St. George's Hospital in the said
Parish of St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, of the mortal Wound aforesaid, did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Jane Vialls,
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Thomas Wade< 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. Wade< no role > Foreman