London

T. Shelton
Corr. [mark]

examd

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say at
the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate without in London aforesaid on the Thirty first day of July 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 Borough of Southwark on view
of the body of Henry Mansell< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Matthias Dupont< no role > James Byrne< no role > Edward Bryant< no role > Thomas Page< no role >
John Ryder< no role > Joseph Robinson< no role > Henry Lewis< no role > John Lane Robert England< no role > Samuel Badcock< no role > Thomas Weston< no role > Henry Woodland< no role > Robert Jones< no role >
Joseph Betterton< no role > James Jackson< no role > William Batchelor< no role > Geroge Winsle Robert Paul Peter Usher< no role > John Draper< no role > Benjamin Brignell< no role > and John
Howard 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 Henry Mansell< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Henry Mansell< no role > not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the said thirty first day of July in the twenty ninth year
aforesaid at the Parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one and of a certain silk Handkerchief of the value of one penny to and about
the Yester of a Bedstead in a certain Bedchamber of a certain public Inn there situate called the Castle and Falcon and the other end of
the said Handkerchief unto and about his own Neck then and there did fix tie and fasten and did thereby then and there hang
strangle and suffocate himself Of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Henry Mansell< no role > did then and there
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Henry Mansell< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself In
Witness whereof as well the said Coroner at the said Matthew Dupont the Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and
the rest of his Fellows in their presence have to their Inquisition set their hands and seals the day a year and place first above
written

Mat. Dupent [mark] Foreman< no role >