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 Fourth day of May 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,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Mary Pritchard< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Payne< no role > , John Brown< no role > , Thomas Neal< no role > , Richard Owen< no role > , Thomas Simpson< no role > ,
Joseph Tingcomb< no role > , Robert Southby< no role > , Simon Henley< no role > , Thomas Cooper< no role > William
Briggs< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > Arthur Allen< no role > & William Meris< 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 Pritchard< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Pritchard< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the said fourth day of May in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in
the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain Linen Handkerchief
unto an Iron Bar at the upper part of the Door of a certain Hole or Place
in which Disordered Persons are usually confined, in the Workhouse
situate 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 Hand suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Mary Pritchard< no role > then and there
died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That
the said Mary Pritchard< no role > , 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 John Payne< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Jno. Payne< no role > Foreman