London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate in the Ward of
Aldersgate without in London aforesaid on the thirteenth day of May in the thirty ninth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord< no role > 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 Elizabeth
Barwick< no role > now here lying dead by the Oath of George Brayne< no role > Thomas Brough< no role > Charles
Skinner< no role > Matthew Davis< no role > Peter Usher< no role > William Patton< no role > William Douglas< no role > Samuel Rolls< no role >
Thomas Wheeler< no role > Joseph Milner< no role > Samuel Neck< no role > Michael Patrick< no role > Thomas Williams< no role >
George Billett< no role > Edward Myhill< no role > David Ellis< no role > and Benjamin Badman 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 Elizabeth Barwick< no role > came to her death Say upon their Oath that the said
Elizabeth Barwick< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted on the eleventh day of May in the year aforesaid one end of a
certain piece of Cord of no value unto and about a certain iron staple fixed in
the Frame of a certain door in the dwelling house ofthere situate and the other
end of the said piece of Cord round and about her own neck did then and
fix tye and faster by means whereof the said Elizabeth Barwick< no role > did then and
there hang strangle and suffocate herself of which said hanging strangling and
suffocation the said Elizabeth Barwick< no role > did then and there die and is the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Barwick< 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 George Brayne< 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 frist abovewritten.

Geo Brayne< no role > [mark]