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 James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fifth day of July 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
Ann Nicholson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Cowper< no role >
John Totton< no role > , John Gwinn< no role > , John Child< no role > , William Trisby< no role > , John Miller< no role > , Samuel Pitt< no role > , James Hosier< no role >
Heel Legg< no role > , George Benson< no role > , Joseph Crow< no role > , Thomas Fisher< no role > , George Lawrence< no role > , John Shirley< no role > , and
William Tomlinson< 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 Nicholson< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said Ann Nicholson< no role > not being of Sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord unto an Iron Staple
fastened into the Ceiling of the two pair of Stairs fore Room of the dwelling House of James Nicholson< no role >
her Husband situate in Piccadilly in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other end thereof about her
own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang Suffocate and strangle herself
of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said Ann Nicholson< no role > then and there Died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Ann Nicholson< no role > not being
of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and by the means
aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as Well the said Coroner as the Forenoon of the
Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
John Cowper< no role > Foorman