City of 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 Clement Danes
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty eighth day of May in the twenty ninth
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 James Sharp< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Samuel Baker< no role > , William Warman< no role > , Joseph Fletcher< no role >
Edward Padden< no role > ,Stephen Stephens< no role > , John Keymer< no role > , Thomas
Ingram< no role > , William Dudley< no role > , James Lock< no role > , Charles Todd< no role > , Edward
Chorel< no role > , George Ride< no role > , Samuel Billit< no role > , William Clark< no role > and
William Wilson< 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 James Sharp< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said James Sharp< no role > not being
of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatick and
distracted, on the Twenty seventh day of may in the Year aforesaid,
at the said Parish of St. Clement Danes within the Liberty and
County aforesaid to with a certain Razer made of Iron and Stell, which
he the said James Sharp< no role > then and there had and held in his Hand
the Throat or Gullet of him the said James Sharp< no role > did then and there
strike stab and penitrate, thereby then and there giving unto himself
with the Razer aforesaid, in and upon the Throat or Gullet of him the
said James Sharp< no role > one mortal Wound of the length of three Inches,
and of the Depth of one Inch. of which said mortal Wound, he the
said James Sharp< no role > then and there died. And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said James Sharp< no role > 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 Samuel
Baker< 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 abovementioned.

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner

Samuel Baker< no role > [mark] Foreman