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 Martin in the Fields
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth 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
Martha Macarty< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward
Wakelin< no role > , John Barret< no role > , Miles Williams< no role > , William Wright< no role > , Charles Price< no role > , James
Gripes< no role > , George Barlow< no role > , James Larimore< no role > , John Marke< no role > , Josiah Edward Fluran< no role > , Edward
Nelson< no role > , David Parrot< no role > , Dennis Jacob< no role > Obsias Emory< 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 Martha Macarty came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Martha Macarty not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and
distracted, on the Nineteenth day of November in the Year aforesaid
one End of a certain piece of Linen Tape unto an Iron Hook fasten'd
into the Window Frame, in the Lodging Room or Apartment of
the said Martha Macarty in the dwelling House of Mary Farquet,
situate in being in little Suffolk Street , in the Parish Liberty and
County aforesaid, and the other End thereof about her own
Neck did fix tye and fasten, and therewith did then and there
hang, suffocate and strangle herself, of which said Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Martha Macarty then
and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say, that the said Martha Macarty, 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
Edward Wakelin< 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 abovewritten

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Edwd. Wakelin< no role > [mark] Foreman