Stewart Books, Works of the Camden Society

8th May 1674 Auditor Beale, in Hatton Garden, cast himselfe out of his upper window (as is by most believed) into his yard, of which fall he died imediately, the moving cause unknown. He had a wife and 2 children living. He died worth a great estate in lands and monies. Some pretend that it was by accident, others through frenzie, wherewith otherwiles he was possessed, whereof the coroner's enquest found that he perished by throwing himselfe downe in his frantick fitt.