London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London (that
is to say) at the parish of Saint Botolph aldersgate in the Ward of Aldersgate without in London
aforesaid on the sixth day of November 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 Theodosia Ouder< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of William Newcomb< no role > , Philip
Payne< no role > , John Towns< no role > , John Hancock< no role > , William Cotton< no role > , George Thorne< no role > , Henry Rowbottom< no role > ,
Robert Mcwood Witheridge< no role > , William Barnett< no role > , George Tucker< no role > , James Corrie< no role > , John Jones< no role > , Martin
Free, William Turner< no role > , Thomas Martin< no role > , Thomas Baxter< no role > , William Trickett< no role > , Thomas Brough< no role > ,
and Joseph Powley< 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 Theodosia Ouder< no role > came to her death say upon their
oath that the said Theodosia Ouder< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the third day of November in the year aforesaid one end
of a certain Towel unto and about the railing of a certain bedstead in a certain room
in the dwelling house of John Scott< no role > there situate and the other end of the said Towel
round and about her own neck did then and there fix tye and fasten by means
whereof the said Theodosia Ouder< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate
herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation the said [..] Theodosia Ouder< no role > did then
and there die.-And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that
the said Theodosia Ouder< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted did hang and kill herself-In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said William Newcomb< 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

Wm Newcomb< no role > [mark] Fore Man