MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Newington in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty sixth Day of January in the Twenty second 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, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
James Garland< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edward Harris< no role > , John Love< no role > , John Newton< no role > , Thomas Morton< no role > , John Beezly< no role > , Thomas
Adams< no role > , Francis Pierce< no role > , William Chapman< no role > , William Campion< no role > , William Newman< no role >
John Cattle< no role > , Thomas Burgan< no role > , Thomas Smith< no role > Robert Roger Smith< no role > , Edward Smith< no role > and
Thomas Dodd< no role > .
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said James Garland< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said James Garland< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty
third Day of January in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Nail in
a Wood [..] Beam in a One Pair of Stairs Room in the Dwelling House of him the
said [..] Garland situate in the Parish and County a [..] other End
the [..] his on Neck did five, h [..] and
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Edward Harris< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Ed Harris [mark] Foreman