London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate in the ward of Cripplegate without
in London aforesaid on the twenty second day of January in the thirty fifth 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 of our said
Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Zacharia
Billing now here lying dead by the oath of Benjamin Kington< no role > David Sadler< no role > John White< no role >
John Pullen< no role > Edward Laxton< no role > Henry Catmur< no role > John Woods< no role > George Weston< no role > William Guy< no role > Henry
Allen Joseph Hopkins< no role > Zacharia Duncan< no role > Joseph Ashbury< no role > and Philemon Mainwaring 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 Zacharia Billing< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said Zacharia Billing< no role > on the twentieth day
of January in the year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted one end of a certain peice of Tape unto and about a certain
wooden rail fixed on the wall in the room of a certain dwelling house belonging to one Alexander situate in
the parish and ward aforesaid and the other end of the said peice of tape round and
about his own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof
the said Zacharia Billing< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
by means of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Zacharia
Billing did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid
do say that the said Zacharia Billing< no role > not being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill himself In Witness
whereofas well the said Coroner as the said Benjamin Kington< 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

Benjamin Kington [mark] Forman