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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Isleworth
in the County of Middlesex , the 28th Day of March 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 Coroner of Our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Benjamin Horston< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Bell< no role > , James
Lover, Isaac Ousbey< no role > , Francis Cooper< no role > , William Boulton< no role > , William Walker< no role >
George Needle< no role > , William Timms< no role > , Richard Friday, George Bacon< no role > , John Poore< no role >
James Startup, John Smith< no role > and William Waylet< 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 Benjamin Horston< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Benjamin
Horston not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
and distracted on the Twenty sixth Day of March in the Year aforesaid One
End of a small Cord to a Rafter in a necessaryHousebelonging to the Dwelling House of John Gerrard< no role >
a Brentford End 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
many suffocate and strangle himself Of which said Hanging Suffocation
and Strangling he the said Benjamin Horston< no role > then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Benjamin
Horston 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 the said Coroner, as the said John Bell< 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.

John Bell< no role > [mark] Foreman