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 Saint Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fourth day of January in the Sixteenth 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
Judith Baldwin< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Bick< no role > , John Hill< no role > , Thomas Palmer< no role > , John Bishop< no role > , William Adams< no role > , James
Hartley< no role > , Joseph Taylor< no role > , John Wayman< no role > , Robert Shuter< no role > , Stephen
Toplas< no role > , Francis Jander< no role > , Richard Ayres< no role > , Richard Knowles< no role >
and William Ryan< 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 Judith Baldwin< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Judith Baldwin< no role > , not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Twenty Second day of January in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain
Place of small Cord unto an Iron Nail fastened into a Wooden Beam
in the Yard of her the said Judith Baldwin< no role > Situate and being in
Hedge Lane in the said Parish Liberty and County, and the other End
thereof about her own Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith
said then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself of which
said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the said Judith Baldwin< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Judith Baldwin< no role > , not being of sound
mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself. In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said James Bick Foreman
of the said Jurors, have to this Inquisition set their Hands
and Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

James Bick Foreman< no role >