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 Twenty ninth day of December in the twenty second 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
Elizabeth Hatton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Burgess< no role > , William Brooks< no role > , Silvester Freeman< no role > , Thomas Munday< no role >
John Murphey< no role > , George Burch< no role > , Thomas Gyde< no role > , William Littleboy< no role >
Thomas Ray< no role > , Michael Castleton< no role > , James Bean< no role > , Stephen Davis< no role >
Thomas Watts< no role > and William Jones< 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 Elizabeth Hatton< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Hatton< no role > , not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick
and distracted, on the Twenty eighth day of December in the
Year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and
County aforesaid, one End of a certain Silk Handkerchief unto an
Iron Jack, fixed in the Kitchen in the Dwelling House of John
Burgess< no role > Gurney situate and being in the said Parish Liberty
and County, and the other End thereof about her own Neck did
fix tye and fasten, and there with did then and there hang
suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Elizabeth Hatton< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Hatton< 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 Burgess< 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 abovewritten

Thos. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

John Burgess< no role > [mark] Foreman