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 James
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 March in the twenty fourth
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 Rachell Clark< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of
John Cardo< no role > , Thomas Bandy< no role > , John Crouch< no role > , James
Pocock< no role > , Thomas Watson< no role > , Richard Cann< no role > , Edward Clark< no role > ,
Thomas Allinson< no role > John Holmes< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , Isaac
Wright< no role > , George Darlington< no role > , John Thwaites< no role > , Thomas
Southwell< no role > and Simon Grover< 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 Rachell Clark came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Rachell Clark, not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted on the Twenty fifth day of March in
the Year aforesaid, one End of a certain Piece of Blew Ribband
unto the foot of a Turned up Bed in the Lodging Room or
Apartment of the said Rachell Clark in the Dwelling House of
John James< no role > Situate in Swallow 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
She the said Rachell Clark then and there Died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Rachell Clark 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 Cardo< 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

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

John Cardo< no role > Foreman