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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth day of December in the Thirteenth 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,
Corner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Margaret Pawley< no role > otherwise Byron< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Hodgson< no role > , Thomas Hitchins< no role > , Jacob Knight< no role > , John Puxon< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > , John Hayter< no role > ,
John Brookes< no role > , Edward Jones< no role > , John Wilson< no role > , Silvester Freeman< no role > , Richard Riches< no role > ,
John Richardson< no role > and Ambrose Turner< 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 Margaret Pawley otherwise Byron came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Margaret Pawley otherwise
Byron, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the said Eighth day of December in the Year aforesaid, one
End of a certain Worsted Garter unto a Wooden Rail fastened to wooden
Beam in the Garret in the dwelling House of Charles Pawley< no role > situate
and being in King Street in the Parish 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 Margaret
Pawley otherwise Byron then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Margaret Pawley
otherwise Byron, not being of sound Mind memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid
did hill herself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said William Hodgson< 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

Wm Hodgson< no role > Foreman