London

T Shelton
Corr. [mark]
examd

An Inquisition indended taken for our Sovereign Lord the king as London, what is to my, at the Parish of
Saint Botolph without Bishopsgale in the Ward of Bishopsgate without in London aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of October in the
twenty ninth year of the reign a four 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 of the Body of William Woodrock< no role > now here lying dead by the oath of Robert Ashton< no role > , Henry Latham< no role > ,
James Burton< no role > , John Smith< no role > , John Buther, David Tummings< no role > , Andrew Crosby< no role > , Richard Osborn< no role > , James Elisha< no role > , William Maynard< no role > ,
John Kinghams< no role > , George Bowley< no role > , William Hatchell< no role > , Randall Clerk< no role > and Thomas Mazemore< no role > good and lawful men of the City of London
aforsaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inqiure for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said
William Woodcock< no role > came to his death say when their oath that the said William Woodcock< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding
but lunatic and distracted on the twenty fifth day of October in the twenty ninth year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London
aforesaid one end of certain small price of Cord of the value of one Penny to and about a certain Iron Hook then and there fixed in the wall of
a certain room in the Dwelling house of him the said William Woodcock< no role > and the other End of the said Cord round and about his own Neck did then
and there Six tie and lasten by means whereof he the William Woodcock< no role > did then and there hang strangle and suffocate himself Of which
said bringing strangling and suffocation [..] William Woodcock< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
Aforesaid do say that the said William Woodecock< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding bus lunatic and distracted did then
and there hang and till himself In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Ashton< 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 hand and seals Year and place first above
Written

Robert Ashton< no role > [mark] Foreman