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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint James
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex , the thirteenth Day of January 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 one of the Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Langley< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Benjamin Gilbert< no role >
Edward Jones< no role > John Simpson< no role > , Philip Pristow< no role > , John Dinmore< no role > , Thomas Isaac< no role >
William Newcombe< no role > , John Bambury< no role > , William Beely< no role > , Joseph Horton< no role > , Edward
Eginton, John Friday< no role > , Alexander Chrystall< no role > and John Pope< 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 William Langley< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William
Langley not being of sound mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
and Distracted on the Twelfth Day of January in the Year aforesaid
himself into the New River in the Parish and County aforesaid Did last
and Throw By Means whereof he the said William Langley< no role > was in the
Waters thereof then and there suffocated and drowned of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said William Langley< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said William Langley< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and
distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did drown and kill himself

In Witness whereof, as well the said Coroner, as the said Benjamin Gilbert< 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.

Benjn. Gilbert [mark] Foreman