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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty first day of March in the Twelfth 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
Elizabeth Blockley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Isaac Day< no role > ,
George Hathaway< no role > , Henry Wilson< no role > , James Don< no role > , Robert Parker< no role > , Nathaniel Clayton< no role >
Robert Chisholm< no role > , John Briscoe< no role > , Thomas Lavell< no role > , George Tate< no role > John Lewis< no role > , John
Brown< no role > and William Arnull< 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 Elizabeth Blockley Came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Elizabeth Blockley, not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Nineteenth day of March in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, one End of a certain piece
of small Cord unto an Iron Spike fastened into a Wooden Beam in the
Lumber-room in the dwelling House of the Right Honourable the Earl
of Waldegrave situate and being in the said Parish Liberty and County,
and the other End thereof about her own Neck, did fix tye and fasten,
and there with did then and there hand suffocate and strangle
herself, of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling she the
said Elizabeth Blockley then and there died. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Elizabeth
Blockley, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill
herself In Witness where of as well the said Coroner, as the said
Isaac Day< 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

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner
Isaac Day Foreman