London

An Inquisition Indented taken for Sovereign Fare the King at London that
to lying at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the ward of Portsoken in
Lord for aforesaid for the eighteenth day of April in the thirty first year of the Reign of our
[..] Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
Dept. Order of the faith and to forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said
[..] she King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of
[..] both Ansell was here lying dead by the Oath of John Chamberlain< no role > Thomas
Dixon< no role > George Greffith< no role > John Fletcher< no role > John Cooke< no role > Samuel Shenton< no role > John Munro< no role >
Steward Smith< no role > John Cobb< no role > William Harwood< no role > Whiston Whalley< no role > Thomas Smith< no role > Leward
[..] John Heward< no role > John Fisher< no role > William Pashley< no role > John Hadfield< no role > good and lawful
man of the City of London aforesaid who being now duly Chosen sworn charged to
inquire for out said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
Elizabeth Ansell< no role > came to her death say upon their Oath that the Elizabeth
[..] sell not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and
distracted on the fifeenth day of April in the year aforesaid one end of a certain
true of Lord of no value unto and about a certain Iron nail fixed in the Bream of
in the Garrett of a certain house there situate and the other and of the said piece of
Lord wound and about her own neck then and there did fix tye and faster
by means whereof she the said Elizabeth Ansell< no role > did that and there hang stranger
and suffocate himself of which said hanging Stranghay and suffocation she the
said Elizabeth Ansell< no role > of then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid on say that the said Elizabeth Ansell< no role > not being of
sound mind memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner
and by the means aforesaid did kill and hang herself In Witness whereof
as well the said Coroner as John Chamberlain< no role > the Foreman of the said Jurors
on Behalf of himself and she rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition
Set their hands and seals the day Year and place above written.

John Chamberlain< no role > [mark] Foreman.