London
and Southwark }

T Shelton
Corr. [mark]

examd.

An Inquisition indented taken for our sovereign Lord the Kingat the Parish of Saint Thomas within the Borough
of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the eighteenth day of October in the twenty eighth 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 Etc. before Thomas Shelton< no role >
Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the Body of many Welch now
here lying dead by the oath of John Mitchell< no role > , John Lucas< no role > , John Draper< no role > , Owen Marden< no role > , Richard Gray< no role > , William Barber< no role > , William
Whelstone, James Ryley< no role > , Nathaniel Harris< no role > , John Taylor< no role > , Richard Wills< no role > , Robert Pearce< no role > , Philip Windson< no role > , Edward Green< no role > , James
Brown and James Nash< no role > good and lawful men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in the said County of Surrey who being
now here chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the king when how and in what manner she said Mary Welch< no role > came
to her death say upon their oath that she said Mary Welch< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted on the sixteenth day of October in the twenty eighth year aforesaid at the Parish of saint Mary Magdalin
Bermondsey in the County aforesaid with a certain sharp instrument of the value of one penny which she the said Mary Welch< no role > in her
right hand then and there had and held the Neck and Throat of her the said Mary Welch< no role > violently and forcibly did strike stab
cut and penctrate Giving to herself thin and there by such striking stabbing cutting and penctrating with the sharp instrument
aforesaid one mortal wound in and upon the neck and Throat of her the said Mary Welch< no role > of the length of Six Inches and of the depth
of three Inches Of which said mortal wound she the said Mary Welch< no role > from the said sixteenth day of October in the twenty eighth year
aforesaid until the seventeenth day of the said month of October in the same year as well as the parish last aforesaid as also as the said
parish of saint Thomas within the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live On which
said seventeenth day of October in the year aforesaid as the parish last aforesaid within the Borough aforesaid in the County aforesaid
the said Mary Welch< no role > of the said mortal wound did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Mary
Welch not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did
kill herself In Witness where of as well she said Coroner as the said John Mitchell< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of
himself and she rest of his Fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition so their hands and seals the day year and place first
above written.

Jno. Mitchell< no role > [mark] Foreman