City and 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 George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty seventh day of May in the 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, 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
Letitia Hill< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of William
Jones< no role > , William Wray< no role > , William Watson< no role > , John Haines< no role > , George Tupper< no role > , Samuel
Floyd< no role > , James Norris< no role > , Samuel Smallman< no role > , John Coates< no role > , Richard Scrace< no role > , Robert Holland< no role > , Robert
Potter< no role > , Francis Toplady< no role > and Joseph Whalley< 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 Letitia Hill< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Letitia Hill not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted on the Sixteenth
day of May in the Year aforesaid, at Hammersmith in the County aforesaid,
with a certain Iron Hammer which she the said Letitia Hill then and
there had and held in her Right Hand, in and upon the Head of her the
said Letitia Hill did then and there several times strike and beat, thereby
then and there giving unto herself with the Hammer aforesaid, one mortal
Wound and one mortal Fracture in and upon the Crown of the Head of her the
said Letitia Hill, of which said mortal Wound and Fracture she the said
Letitia Hill from the said Sixteenth day of May in the Year aforesaid until
the Twenty sixth day of the same Month in the [..] Year of St George's
Hospital at the said Parish of St George Hanover Square with in the Liberty and
County aforesaid did languish and languishing did live, on which said
Twenty sixth day of May in the Year aforesaid, she the said Letitia Hill< no role > at
the Hospital aforesaid within the Parish Liberty and County aforesaid
of the mortal Wound and Fracture aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Letitia Hill not
being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself In Witness
whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Jones< 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 first above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner

Wm Poull< no role > Foreman