London

T: Shelton
Corr. [mark]

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 sixteenth day of February
in the thirtieth Year of the Reign four 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 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 Elizabeth Stroud< no role > now hear lying dead by the Oath of John Simpson< no role > , George Thompson< no role > , William
Bartholomew< no role > , Christopher Dixon< no role > , John Plowman< no role > , William Saway, Robert Sharwood< no role > , Thomas Stevenson< no role > , John Scott< no role > , Thomas
Blissett, John Knight< no role > , John Chapman< no role > , Richard Darling< no role > William Abell< no role > , William Furniss< no role > , John Davies< no role > , William
Williams and Thomas Howitt good and lawful men of the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and
charged to Inquire for our said Lord the King when how and after what manner the said Elizabeth Stroud< no role > came to her death
say upon their Oath that the said Elizabeth Stroud< no role > not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic
and distracted on the fourteenth day of February in the Year aforesaid at the parish and ward aforesaid in London aforesaid one end of
a certain small piece of Cord of no value [..] and about a certain Iron Nail for [..] the Wall of certain Room in the
dwelling house of one William Silvay< no role > there situate and the other end of the said piece of Cord unto and about her own neck
then and there did fix tie and faster By means whereof she the said Elizabeth Stroud< no role > did the and there hang strangle
and suffocate herself of which said hanging strangling and suffocation she the said Elizabeth Stroud< no role > did then and there
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Elizabeth Stroud< no role > not being of sound
mind memory and understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did
hang and kill herself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said John Simpson< 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 Year and place first above written

John Simpson< no role > [mark] Foreman