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 sixth day of May in the Thirtieth
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 Ann Beckton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of John Banner< no role > , Thomas Hill< no role > , Henry Frame< no role > , John Seaman< no role >
Thomas Jarvis< no role > , James Burchell< no role > , John Lear< no role > , Benjamin Aked< no role >
Thomas Gray< no role > , John Mathews< no role > , George Thompson< no role > , Joseph Stutely< no role >
and Richmond Bleamire< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for out said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Ann Beckton came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Ann Beckton not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and
distracted on the said Twenty sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid one
End of a certain Cotton Garter unto an Iron Curtain Rod of the Bed in the
apartment of her the said Ann Beckton in Northumberland House situate
in the said Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the Liberty and County
aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Neck did fix tie and fasten
and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself, of which
said hanging suffocation and strangling she the said Ann Beckton then
and these died, And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say
that the said Ann Beckton not being of sound Mind Memory & 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 Banner< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors on the behalf
of himself and the rest of his Fellows in than presence have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place
abovementioned

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

John Banner< no role > [mark] Foreman