London
and
Southwark }

T Shelton
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say at
the parish of Christ Church in the Ward of Farringdon within in London aforesaid on the twentieth day of June in the
twenty ninth 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 Etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Brough
of Southwark on view of the Body of Peter Cope< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Franch< no role > , William Webb< no role > ,
[..] Marsh, John Vigo< no role > , William Finch< no role > , George Suffolk Edward Price< no role > David Hockey< no role > George Westley< no role > James Lucas< no role >
Roger Bayliff Richard Jones< no role > Randell Nott< no role > John Powell< no role > William Thompson< no role > John Philpott< no role > and William Buslin good and
lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord
the King when how and in what manner the said Peter Cope< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Peter Cope< no role >
not being aforesaid mind memory and understnding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty ninth day of June in the
twenty ninth year aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one and of a certain Handkerchief of the value
of one penny round the rail of a certain Bed stead in the dwelling house of him the said Peter Cope< no role > their situate and the other
and of the said Handkerchief round and about his own Neck then and there did fix tye and Faston and did thereby then and there
hang strangle and suffocate himself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Peter Cope< no role > did then and there die
And so the jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Peter Cope< no role > not doing of Samuel mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself In Witnesses
whereof as well the said Coroner at the said William Freanch< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the
rest of his fellow in this presence have to their Inquisition set their hands and seals the day a year and place first above
written

William Freanch< no role > [mark]