Southwark .

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the
parish of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in the Country of Surrey on the
third day of January in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
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 of our
said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the
body of Esther Fogg< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Anderson< no role > Walter
Scott William Coxson< no role > William Weldon< no role > John Walton< no role > John Downing< no role > John Ferry< no role >
William Chapman< no role > Thomas Hartley< no role > Alexander Lysell< no role > James Turner< no role > John Meek< no role >
and John Thomas< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough and Country 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 Esther Fogg< no role > came to her death say
upon their oath that the said Esther Fogg< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the third day of January in the
year aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord Value unto and about a certain
Iron Curtain rod of a certain bedstead in a certain room belonging to the dwelling
house of one Joseph Fogg< no role > situate in the parish aforesaid within the borough aforesaid
in the County aforesaid and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about her own
neck did then and there fix tie and fasten by means whereof she the said Esther Fogg< no role > did
then and there hang strangle and suffocate herself of which said hanging strangling
and suffocation she the said Esther Fogg< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Esther Fogg< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill herself In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Anderson< no role > the foreman of the said
Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to
this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Wm. Anderson< no role > Foreman