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 Thirteenth day of December 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
Margaret Butcher< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Henry Wilson< no role >
Thomas Dunn< no role > , Richard Halsey< no role > Nathaniel Clayton< no role > , Edmund Shipman< no role > , Thomas Simpson< no role >
Henry Leach< no role > , John Sherley< no role > , Robert Wright< no role > , John Turpin< no role > , Thomas Labbell< no role >
Alexander Davidson< no role > and William Arnull< 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 Margaret Butcher came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Margaret Butcher, not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
on the Twelfth day of December in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish
aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, with a certain
Razor made of Iron and Steel, which she the said Margaret Butcher
then and there had and held in her Right Hand, the Throat or Gullet
of her the said Margaret Butcher did then and there strike stub
and penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto herself with
the Razor aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of her the said
Margaret Butcher one mortal Wound of the Length of three Inches
and of depth of one Inch, of which said mortal Wound she the
said Margaret Butcher then and there instantly died. And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, That the said
Margaret Butcher, 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 Henry Wilson< 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 > Coroner
Henry Wilson< no role > Foreman