London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken
in London aforesaid on the sixth day of January in the thirty seventh year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain 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 Gustavus Bartholomew Hastfer< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of John Allen< no role > , Henry Newton< no role > , Peter Leyburn< no role > , William Fisher< no role > , Henry Wilson< no role > ,
Richard Baker< no role > , Joseph Sheppard< no role > , Russell Skinner< no role > , William Ortzen< no role > , Edward Fordham< no role > ,
William Windy< no role > , John Fairburn< no role > , John Jackson< no role > , Joseph Neale< no role > , Richard Parrish< no role > , John
Fletcher,< no role > Thomas Dixon< no role > , James Booth< no role > , and Samuel Phillips< no role > , 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 Gustavus
Bartholomew Hastfer< no role > came to his death say upon their oath that the said Gustavus
Bartholomew Hastfer< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and
distracted on the fifth day of January in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece
of small cord unto and about a certain iron grating in a Cellar belonging to the
dwelling house of him the said Gustavus Bartholomew Hastfer there situate
and the other end of the said piece of Cord round and about his own neck did
then and there fix tye and fasten by means whereof the said Gustavus
Bartholomew Hastfer< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself
of which said hanging strangling and suffocation he the said Gustavus Bartholomew
Hastfer< no role > did then and there die and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid do say that the said Gustavus Bartholomew Hastfer< no role > not being of sound
mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did hang and kill
himselfIn Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Allen< 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.

[mark] John Allen< no role >