MIDDLESEX
.
(To wit.)}
AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Christ Church
in the County of
Middlesex
, the First Day of February 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
John Speight< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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,
Michael Le< no role >
Taillour,
William Morris< no role >
,
Thomas Curtis< no role >
John
Harding,
John Gallathy< no role >
,
Robert Low< no role >
,
Samuel Leschallas< no role >
,
Richard Dunster< no role >
, William
Jefferys
Robert Hughes< no role >
,
Thomas Jacks< no role >
,
George Wood< no role >
,
James lundale< no role >
,
Benjamin Sellers< no role >
Thomas Coats< no role >
Thomas Claney< no role >
,
John Scott< no role >
,
Frances Wilcox< no role >
William Brown< no role >
and John Pedoux
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
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came to his
[..]
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said
John Speight< no role >
not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Thirty first day of January in the Year aforesaid one End of a Woollen Garter to
a Wooden Rafter in a necessary House situate in Hubbalds Court in the Parish and
County aforesaid and the other End thereof to a Silk Handkerchief round his own
Neck
[..] fix tye and faster and therewith did then and there
[..] suffocate and strangle
himself
[..] which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling the said
John Speight< no role >
[..] that
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
Thomas Bambry< 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 >
Coroner
Thomas BambryForeman