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 Twentyfirst day of September 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
Mary Filewood< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Francis Johnston< no role > ,
Constantine Taulings< no role > , John Cockerell< no role > , Richard Edwards< no role > , William Dutton Townsend< no role > , Robert Norne< no role > ,
Samuel Freeman< no role > , Henry Whelan< no role > , Thomas Newbery< no role > , William Snow< no role > , William Painter< no role > , William Caddick< no role > ,
John Forster< no role > and William Scarborough< 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 Mary Filewood< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Filewood< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the said
Twenty first day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain piece of
small Cord unto the Iron Curtain Rod at the feet of the Bed in the Bedchamber
of her the said Mary Filewood< no role > in the Dwelling House of James Filewood< no role > , situate
and being in Piccadilly in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County
aforesaid, 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 Mary Filewood< no role > then and
there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Mary Filewood< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatic
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did hill herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said Francis Johnston
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 > [mark] Coroner
Francis Johnston [mark] Foreman