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 Twelfth day of September in the Fourteenth 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
Sarah Knight< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James
Brown< no role > , Samuel Mitchell< no role > , Thomas Langton< no role > , John Storr< no role > , Joseph Perkins< no role > ,
John Palmer< no role > , John Brown< no role > , Thomas Newman< no role > , Peter Watson< no role > , Joseph
Skinner< no role > , John Gittes< no role > , Joseph Hanna< no role > , James Greeson< no role > , and Joseph
Kimberley< 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 Sarah Knight< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said Sarah Knight< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick and distracted,
on the Eleventh day of September in the Year aforesaid, one End
of a certain Piece of Silk Ribband unto an Iron Bar in the Door
of the Watch house of the Said Parish of Saint Margaret (wherein
she the said Sarah Knight< no role > was Confined) situate and being 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 Sarah Knight< no role >
then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid [..] on their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said Sarah Knight< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted,
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did Hang herself
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
James Brown< 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
James Brown< no role > Foreman