Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at Saint Mary Le Bone
in the County of Middlesex , the fifteenth 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 Coroner of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of John Tombs< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Edward Langley< no role >
George Pearce< no role > John Fox< no role > , Christopher Dixon< no role > , Thomas James< no role > Robert
Dove Francis Forster William Carter< no role > George Brads< no role > Joseph Charrage< no role >
William Walker< no role > John Fisher< no role > James Thinn< no role > John Pearson< no role > James Cox< no role >
Richard Beek< no role > and Thomas Green< 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 John Tombs< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That The said John Tombs< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
on the Thirteenth Day of June in the Year aforesaid One End of a Horses Halter
to a Beam in the Hayloft of William Atwick< no role > Esqr situate in the Parish
and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own Neck did fix
tye and fasten and therewith Did then and there hang suffocate and strangle
himself Of which said Hanging suffocation and Strangling he the said
John Tombs< no role > then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath
aforesaid Do say That the said John Tombs< no role > in Mannernot 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 Langley< 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.

Edward Langley< no role > [mark] Foreman