City of 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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of April in the Fourteenth 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 Tapperell< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Whitehead< no role > , Richard Morrett< no role > , James Morris< no role > , Henry Meyer< no role > , William Selby< no role > ,
Abraham Reynolds< no role > , John Jackson< no role > , William Dickins< no role > , John Barnard< no role > ,
Nicholas Clark< no role > , Robert Loveday< no role > , John Skelton< no role > , Thomas Purbeg< no role > , Daniel
Bulfin< no role > , and George Martin< 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 Tapperell came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Tapperell not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,
on the Twentieth day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and
in the Liberty and County aforesaid with a certain Case Knife which
she the said Mary Tapperell then and there had and held in her Right-
Hand, the Throat or Gullet of her the said Mary Tapperell did strike
stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto herself
with the Case Knife aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of her
the said Mary Tapperell one mortal Wound of the Length of two
Inches and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said Mortal Wound
she the said Mary Taperell then and there instantly died.
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the
said Mary Tapperell, 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 Whitehead< no role > Foreman of the said
Jurors, on he 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 > [mark] Coronor
Wm. Whitehead< no role > [mark] Foreman