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 First day of February in the Twenty third
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 Ruskin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of James Grierson< no role > Joseph Read< no role > , Samuel Games< no role > , John
Farrell< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , Henry Baker< no role > , Isaac Venes< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. ,
James Fletcher< no role > , Elias Glair< no role > , William Keatly< no role > , William
Burrell< no role > and James Evans< 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 Ruskin came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Elizabeth Ruskin, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick and distracted, on the Thirty first day of January
in the Year aforesaid One End of a certain piece of small Cord
unto an Iron Hook fastened into a Piece of Timber in the
Lodging Room of her the said Elizabeth Ruskin in the
Dwelling House of William King< no role > , situate [..] being in
Union Street in the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty
and County aforesaid, and the other End there of 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 Elizabeth
Ruskin then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Ruskin in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid, not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,
did kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the said James Grierson< 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 Hand's
and Seals the Day Year and Place above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner
James Grierson [mark] Foreman