London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Bennett Finch in the Ward of Broad Street on London aforesaid
on the twenty eighth day of March in the thirty four 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner for our said Lord the King for the City
of London and Borough of Southwark on View of the Body of Joseph Stewardson< no role > now
here lying dead by the Oath of John Sommers< no role > David Jones< no role > Benjamin Stephens< no role > Edward
Morris Thomas< no role > Tatt John Miles< no role > John Brooke< no role > Edward Markham< no role > Charles Waterhouse< no role > John
Assbrook William Fountain< no role > John Gray< no role > Daniel Stewart< no role > Giles Hanwell< no role > and Francis
Tolit< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London who being new here duly chosen sworn
and charged to inquire for our Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
Joseph Stewardson< no role > same to his death say upon their Oath that the said Joseph
Stewardson on the twenty sixth day of March in the Thirty First year aforesaid at the Parish
and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of a ceratin Piece of Cord of no value unto and about
the tester of a certain bedstead in a certain room in the dwelling house of him the said Joseph
Stewardson there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord unto round and about his own
Neck did then and there fix tie and fasten by means whereof he the said Joseph Stewardson< no role > did
then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation
he the said John Stewardson< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say that the said Joseph Stewardson< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and hill himself.
In Witness a hereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Summers< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of
himself and the rest of his follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day Year
and place first above written.

John Sommers< no role > [mark] Forman