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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of April 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 Elizabeth Phillips< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Holloway< no role > , Richard Martin< no role > , Alexander Brooks< no role >
Timothy Mutch< no role > , Henry Chapman< no role > Joseph Turner< no role > , Joseph
Lander< no role > , Peter Hay< no role > , Thomas Skellern< no role > , William Wilson< no role >
William Ferguson< no role > , Thomas Thomas< no role > , James Frazier< no role > , Alexander
Copeland< no role > and Charles Buer< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. 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 Phillips< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Phillips< no role > , not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and
distracted on the Twenty sixth day of April in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, with
or certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which she the said
Elizabeth Phillips< no role > then and there had and held in her Right Hand
the Throat or Gullet of her the said Elizabeth Phillips< no role > did then
and there strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there
giving unto herself with the Knife aforesaid in and upon
the Throat or Gullet of her the said Elizabeth Phillips< no role > one Mortal
Wound of the Length of three Inches and of the Depth of one
Inch, of which said Mortal Wound she the said Elizabeth Phillips< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Phillips< 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 Richard Holloway< 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 > [mark] Coroner

Richard Holloway< no role > [mark] Foreman