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 Twenty seventh day of April 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
Elizabeth Hughes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Stephens< no role > , John Edmondson< no role > , James Nicholson< no role > , William Perkins< no role > , Hugh Munshall< no role > ,
James Bretherton< no role > , James Gilron< no role > , Enoch Hodgkinson< no role > , Richard Taylor< no role > , Mark
Gibbs< no role > , Thomas Mason< no role > , William Hawkins< no role > , Richard Peachey< no role > , Richard
Jacobs< no role > and Thomas Booker< 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 Hughes< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Elizabeth Hughes< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Twenty seventh
day of April in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of small Cord unto one of the
Banisters of the Kitchen Stairs in the dwelling House of Lady Ann Cecil< no role > situate
and being in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End thereof
about 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 Elizabeth Hughes< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Elizabeth Hughes< no role > , 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 James [..] F [..]
of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself, and the rest of the 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 > [mark] Coroner
James Stephens< no role > [mark] Foreman