Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of [..] Holborn
above the Barrs in the County of Middlesex , the tenth Day of June in the 22nd. 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 Joseph Batts< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Edward Verrier< no role > John
Parsons, Thomas Wood< no role > Richard Payne< no role > John Miller< no role > James Fisher< no role >
Joseph Catley< no role > John Turner< no role > James Johnson< no role > William Eden< no role > , Francis
Cook< no role > John Goddard< no role > and Benjamin Piller< 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 said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Joseph Batts< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph Batts< no role >
not being of sound mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
on the seventh Day of June in the year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to
a Hook and the other End thereof about his 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 he the said Joseph Batt< no role > then and there
died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the
said Joseph Batts< no role > not being 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 Edward Verrier< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

Edw Verrier [mark] Foreman