City of 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 Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter , Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twelfth day of March in the twenty Fifth
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 Mary Norman< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Richard Christmas< no role > , John French< no role > , Robert
Partidge, John Henry Rigg< no role > , Theophilus Tuff< no role > , Richard
Ovey< no role > , Andrew Schabner< no role > , Edward Darley< no role > , James Sedgwick< no role >
Samuel Barlow< no role > , Thomas Wilkinson< no role > , John Tilby< no role >
and Robert Timewell< 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 Mary Norman< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Mary Norman< no role > , not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted on the fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid,
with a certain Knife made of Iron and Steel which she the said
Mary norman then and there had and held in her Right Hand
the Throat or Guiller [..] the said Mary Norman< no role > did
then and there strike Stab and penetrate, thereby them
and there giving unto herself with the Knife aforesaid in
and upon the Throat or Gullet of her the said mary Norman< no role > one
Mortal Wound of the length of Three Inches and of the depth of
one Inch, of which said mortal wound she the said Mary Norman< no role >
from the said fifth day of March in the Year aforesaid until the Eleventh
day of the same Month in the same Year at the Parish and in the Liberty
and County aforesaid did languish and live, on which said Eleventh
day of March she the said mary Norman< no role > of the mortal Wound aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid Upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the
said Mary Norman< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
lunatick, and distracted in Planner aforesaid did kill herself. In Witness
wehreof as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Christmas< no role > Foreman
of the said Jurors on the 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .
Richd. Christmas [mark] Foremans