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 Martin in the fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the First day of August 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
Catherine Fitzpatrick< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Fox< no role >
John Jenkins< no role > , Robert Evans< no role > , Daniel Peters< no role > , George Smeeten< no role > , James Beddell< no role > , Benjamin Ixer< no role >
William Gardiner< no role > , William Worlock< no role > , Murtha Tanner< no role > , William Woodward< no role > , William Gray< no role > ,
Robert Corne< no role > and William Wood< 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 Catherine Fitz Patrick came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say
That the said Catherine Fitz Patrick not being of Sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted on the Thirty first day of July
in the Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a
certain piece of Cord unto a Wooden Pin fastened in a Wooden frame and fixed to the Wainsott
in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said Catherine Fitz Patrick situate in Hanover
Street Long Acre in the said Parish Liberty and County and the other and thereof about her
our 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 Catherine Fitz Patrick
then and there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Catherine Fitz Patrick 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 Foreman 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 Fox< no role > Foreman