London

Thos. Shelton< no role >
[mark]
Coroner

examd.

An Inquisition [..] Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London, that is to say, at the parish of Saint Botolph
without Bishopsgate in the ward of Bishopsgate without in London aforesaid on the Eleventh day of August in the
Twenty eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France
and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth Before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our
said Lord the King for thesaid City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Thomas Carter< no role > now here lying Dead by the Oath of John Strange< no role > ,
George Murray< no role > , Ebenezer Johnson< no role > , Michael Gray, John Caldnott< no role > , John Clareson, Willaim Hester, Thomas Griffith< no role > , John Ayres< no role > , James Lee< no role > ,
Thomas Smith< no role > , William Brusee< no role > , Thomas Lucford< no role > , William Mardell and James Burrows< no role > good and lawfulmen of the City of London aforesaid
who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire aforesaid Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Thomas Carter< no role > came
to his death say upon their oath that the said Thomas Carter< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted on the
tenth day of August in the twenty eight year aforesaid at the parish and Ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of a certain small piece of
Rope unto and about a certain Wooden Beam in a certain Left belonging to the Dwellinghouse of one George Eader there situate and the other and
thereof unto and about his own Neck there and there did Sixtie and fasten by means whereof he the said Thomas Carter< no role > did then and there hang
suffocated and strangle himself Of which said hanging suffocation and stangling he the said Thomas Carter< no role > did then and there die And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Carter< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the
said John Strange< 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 and year and place first above written

John Strange< no role > [mark] Foreman