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 Fourth day of November in the Fourteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Eleanor Dutton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Thomas
Butcher< no role > , William Fisher< no role > , Francis Noden< no role > , Richard Sandyford< no role > , Benjamin Cook< no role > ,
Jeremiah Lary< no role > , John Marshall< no role > , Robert Loveday< no role > , Samuel Waters< no role > , John Hance< no role > Robert
Minnett< no role > , George Draper< no role > , Thomas Ponteel< no role > & Isaac Floyd< no role > , good and lawfull 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 Eleanor Dutton came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Eleanor Dutton, not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on
the First day of November in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain Knife, made of Iron and Steel,
which she the said Eleanor Dutton then and there had and held in her Right
Hand, the Throat or Gullet of her the said Eleanor Dutton did then and there
strike stab and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto herself,
with the Knife aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of her the
said Eleanor Dutton one mortal Wound, of the Length of three Inches,
and of the Depth of one Inch, of which said mortal Wound she the
said Eleanor Dutton from the said First day of November in the Year aforesaid,
until the Third day of the same Month and Year, at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on
which said Third day of November aforesaid, at the Parish Liberty and
County aforesaid, she the said Eleanor Dutton of the mortal Wound aforesaid
did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that
the said Eleanor Dutton, not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding,
but lunatick and distracted, in Manner and by the Means of aforesaid, did
kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
Thomas Butcher< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself and
the rest of his Fellows, in the presence, have to his Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place First above written

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Thos. Butcher< no role > [mark] Foreman