London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say at the
parish of Saint Peter Cornhill in the ward of Cornhill in London aforesaid on the twenty
sixth day of September 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 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 Thomas Lane< no role > now here lying dead by
the oath of Richard Knight< no role > James Hunt< no role > William Innes< no role > Christopher Young< no role > William Cotton< no role >
David Old< no role > Zachariah Hardman< no role > James Harris< no role > George Wilnshurst< no role > William Inall< no role > John Chopper
Stephen Holland< no role > Edward Bacon< no role > George Packwood< no role > and Thomas Cood 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 Kingwhenwhen how and in what manner the said Thomas Lane< no role >
came to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Lane< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the said twenty sixth day of September
in the year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid with a certain pen knife
of the value of two pence which he the said Thomas Lane< no role > in his right hand then and there
had and held the neck and throat of him the said Thomas Lane< no role > with the knife aforesaid did then
and there violently cut giving to himself the said Thomas Lane< no role > with the knife aforesaid one
mortal wound in and upon the throat of him the said Thomas Lane< no role > of which said Mortal wound
he the said Thomas Lane< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon the oath aforesaid
do say that the said Thomas Lane< no role > not being of Sound Mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Knight< 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.

Richard Knight< no role > [mark] Foreman