London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the parish of Saint Stephen Coleman street in the Ward of Coleman street
in London aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of October in the thirty eighth 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 Ann Rogers< no role > now here lying dead
by the oath of Jeremiah Cater< no role > , John Sawer< no role > , Robert Lawson< no role > , William Kinnersley< no role > , Thomas
Prior< no role > , John Howell< no role > , Edward Hughes< no role > , Richard Woodhouse< no role > , John Wootton< no role > , Thomas Johnson< no role >
John Dobson< no role > , James Margus< no role > , John Barton< no role > , Thomas Harris< no role > , Henry Grover< no role > , John Coleman< no role >
John Hesther< no role > , Richard Dickinson< no role > , and John Norfolk< 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 Ann
Rogers< no role > came to her death say upon their oath that the said Ann Rogers< no role > not being
of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the twenty
sixth day of October in the year aforesaid one end of a certain piece of Cord of no value
unto and about a certain iron nailfixedin the Wall of a certain room in the
dwelling house ofWootton there situate and the other end of the said piece
of Cord round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by
means whereof the said Ann Rogers< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate
herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said Ann Rogers< no role > did
then and there die-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Ann Rogers< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did hang and kill himself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Jeremiah Cater< 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

Jerh. Cater< no role > [mark] forman