Middlesex
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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Giles
in the Fields in the County of Middlesex , the Fifth, Day of February 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 Coroners of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of William Blacket< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Francis Lee< no role > David Shiriff< no role >
John First, Samuel Faxen< no role > , John Holt< no role > , Joseph Milward< no role > , Robert Walker< no role >
John Walker< no role > , George Child< no role > , James, Treavit , John Hunt< no role > and George Appleton< 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 Blacket< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said William Blacket< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted
at the Parish and County aforesaid with a certain Razor which he the said William Blacket< no role > then and there had and
held in his Hand the Throat a Gullet of himself did then and there strike stab and
penetrate thereby then and there giving unto himself in and upon his said Throat
or Gullet One Mortal wound of which said Mortal wound he the said William
Blacket then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their bath aforesaid
Do say That the said William Blacket< 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 Francis Lee< 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.

Francis Lee< no role > [mark] Foreman