Middlesex
(to wit.)

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Mary Le Bone
in the County of Middlesex , the Eighth Day of Novr. in the 23d. 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 s of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of James Dowling< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Charles Wren< no role > , John Cockburn< no role >
James Dixon< no role > , Thomas Coleman< no role > , Samuel Glover< no role > , James Hodgson< no role > , John Wormold< no role >
Peter Shenfield< no role > , John Edmondson< no role > , Samuel Bearcroft< no role > , John Henry< no role > , Richard
Dickinson, James Ireland< no role > , John Willock< no role > , John Minchin< no role > , Benjamin Tupling< no role >
and Robert Thompson< 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 James Dowling< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said James Dowling< no role > not
being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the
Fifth Day of November in the year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to the
Bed Post in a Room in the Dwelling House of his Master Bower Greenwood< no role >
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
James Dowling< no role > then and there Died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said James Dowling< 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 Charles Wren< 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.

Chas Wren [mark] Foreman