City and Liberty
of Westmister
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint James
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Thirtieth day of July in the Thirteenth 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 > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Elizabeth Cooper< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Walter Strafford< no role >
Thomas Sims< no role > , James Thomas< no role > , Edward Smyth< no role > , Andrew hardy< no role > , William Hurdleston< no role > , William Blake< no role >
Edward Quincey< no role > , Samuel Russell< no role > , Robert Hopwood< no role > , John Kilk< no role > , Joseph Dancox< no role > , Robert Duccarell< no role >
Thomas Hoberne< no role > , John Jones< no role > , Edward Davis< no role > , and Benjamin Radcliff< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Elizabeth Cooper< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Elizabeth Cooper< no role > not being of Sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth day of July in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid one end of a certain peice of Cord unto an Iron
Staple fastened into the Leiling in the Lodging Room or Apartment of her the said Elizabeth Cooper< no role > in
a House situate in little Peter Street in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other end thereof about
her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle
herself, of which said Hanging, Suffocation, and Strangling she the said Elizabeth Cooper< no role > then
and there Died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said
Elizabeth Cooper< no role > not being of sound Mined Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in
manner and by the means aforesaid did Kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said
Coroner as the Foreman of the Jurors aforesaid on behalf of himself and the rest of the said Jurors
have to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals the Day Year and at the Place abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

Walter StraffordForeman