Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Liberty of the Savoy
in the County of Middlesex , the third Eighth Day of April in the 22d. 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, Etc. before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Thomas Botham< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Richard Jones< no role > James Dunks< no role >
Abraham Monday< no role > Henry Proctor< no role > William Nelson< no role > Blackett Bulmer Daniel< no role >
Golden John Peach< no role > Charles Rutherford< no role > James Smith< no role > and John Skinner< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law, required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Thomas Botham< no role >
came to his Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said Thomas Botham< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
distracted on this Eighth Day of April in the Year aforesaid himself out of
a Two Pair of Stairs Window in the Dwelling House of his Father Peter
Botham situate in the Liberty and County aforesaid to and against the Ground
there Did last and Throw thereby then and there Giving Unto himself One
Mortal Fracture in and upon the Scull of him the said Thomas Botham< no role >
of which said Mortal Fracture he the said Thomas Botham< no role > then and there Died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas
Botham nothing of sound Mind Memory and Understanding But Lunatic and
distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill himself
In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Richard Jones< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in the presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

E. Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Rd. Jones [mark] Foreman