London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
(that is to say) at the parish of Saint Bennett Pauls wharf in the ward of Castle baynard
in London aforesaid on the sixth day of May in the thirty ninth 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 Mary Thompson< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of Thomas Mayhew< no role > , Stephon Wolf< no role > , James
Macklaron,< no role > Samuel Chambers< no role > , Stephen Turner< no role > , John Billin< no role > , Robert Williams< no role > ,
James Alford< no role > , Dennis Bilton< no role > , Tilberry Williams< no role > , John Fowler< no role > , John Roake< no role > , and
William Edwards< 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 Mary Thompson< no role > came to her death say
upon their oath that the said Mary Thompson< no role > on the fourth day of May in the year
aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid not being of found
mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted did cast and throw
herself into the River of Thames there situate and in and with the waters of
the said river was then and there suffocated and drowned of which said suffocation
and drowning the said Mary Thompson< no role > did then and there die and so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary Thompson< no role >
not being of found mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted
did [..] drown and kill herselfIn witness whereof as well the said Coroner
as the said Thomas Mayhew< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself
and the rest of his follows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their
hands and seals the day year and place first above written

Tho Mayhew< no role > [mark]