City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex .}
to Wit

An Inquisition indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Parish of St. John the Evangelist in the City of Westminster , within the Liberty of the Dean
and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster , the first day of May in the Second Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and
Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > Coroner of our said Lord
the King for the said City and Liberty, on view of the Body of Elizabeth< no role > the Wife of James Beck< no role > then and there lying
Dead, upon the Oath of Walter Tyrrell< no role > Thomas Owen< no role > John Calcut< no role > William Bartlet< no role > Robert Pedinton< no role >
Thomas Gunter< no role > , William Rideout< no role > , William Gray< no role > , John Bamfield< no role > , John Bunney< no role > ,
Thomas Clarke< no role > Richard Hollis< no role > and Edward Pagett< no role > good and lawful Men of the said
Liberty duly chosen, and who being then and there duly Sworn and charged to inquire for our said
Lord the King, when how and by what means the said Elizabeth Beck< no role > came to her Death, Do upon
then Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Beck< no role > not having the fear of God before her Eyes but being
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil, on the thirtieth day of April in the
Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish aforesaid in the City and County
aforesaid , in and upon herself feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore thought did
make an Assault, and that the said Elizabeth Beck< no role > one End of a certain Cord of no Value, to a
certain Iron Holdfast in the Wall of the Lodging Room of her the said Elizabeth Beck< no role > in the
dwelling House of William Peascod< no role > situate in Duck Lane in the Parish aforesaid in the City
and County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about her Neck feloniously wilfully
and of her malice fore thought did tye and fasten, And herself the said Elizabeth with the
Cord aforesaid then and there feloniously wilfully and of her Malice fore thought did
hangs suffocate choak and strangle, Of which said hanging suffocating choaking and strangling
the said Elizabeth Beck< no role > then and there instantly dyed; And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth Beck< no role > herself in manner and form aforesaid
feloniously wilfully and of her malice fore thought did Kill and Murder, against the Peace of
our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner, as the said Walter Tyrrell< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the
behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their presence, have to this
Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Walter Tyrrell< no role > Foreman