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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty sixth day of December in the Twenty first 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
Jane Smith< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Shelmerdine< no role > , William Levington< no role > , James Addinson< no role > , Charles Lovell< no role >
James Sadler< no role > , William Gyblet< no role > Jonathan Cuningham< no role > William Tong< no role >
John Gade< no role > , William Bowers< no role > , Thomas Stevens< no role > Robert Lawford< no role > , John
Cordinly< no role > and Christopher West< 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 Jane Smith< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Jane Smith< no role > , not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the Twenty third day of December in
the Year aforesaid, One End of a certain piece of small Cord
unto an Iron Hook fastened into the Lintel over the Window
in the Garret in the House of John Eldridge< no role > situate in Vere
Street 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 Jane
Smith< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Jane Smith< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid did kill herself, In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as the said John Shelmardine
Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf of himself and the
rest of his said Fellows in their presence have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and
Place abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jno Shelmerdine< no role > [mark] Foreman