Southwark

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of Saint
George within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on he twenty seventh day of
June in the thirty sixth 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 he faith and so forth before Thomas
Shelton Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for he City of London and Borough of
Southwark on view of the body of William Goodchild< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of
William Fewcott< no role > James Glover< no role > Charles Armitage< no role > William Kear Thomas Thompson< no role > Thomas
Archer Richard< no role > George William Trevish Stephen Brice< no role > Stephen Stroud< no role > Thomas Farley< no role >
John Wilson< no role > Henry Perryn< no role > Samuel Davis< no role > and Thomas Pacey good and lawful men of
the Borough of Southwark 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 William Goodchild< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said William Goodchild< no role > not being of sound
Mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty fifth day of June
in the year aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord of no value unto and about a certain
tool made of view [..] called a twist bit fixed in the wainscot of a certain [..] shop
belonging to one William Brandon< no role > there situate and the other end of the said peice of
Cord round and about his own neck did then and there five tie and fasten by means
whereof the said William Goodchild< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said William Goodchild< no role > did then
and there die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the
said William Goodchild< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted did hang and kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said William Fewcott< 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 abovewritten.

W. Fewcott [mark] Foreman