MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Matthews< no role > Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the fourteenth Day of June 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
Mary Pomfret then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Howard< no role > , Daniel Delacourt< no role > , William Greenwood< no role > , Bonniface Clase,
Felix Devall< no role > , John Andrew< no role > , George Lech< no role > [..] , Thomas Barefoot< no role > William Wins< no role >
James Green< no role > , William Warner< no role > , Richard Cheesman< no role > , Nicholas Derke< no role > , Daniel
Dupey, Bartholomew Butterworth and Thomas Baker< 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 Mary Pomfret came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Mary Pomfret not being of sound Mind,
Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twelfth Day of June in
the Year aforesaid at the parish and in the County aforesaid with a certain Case Knife made
of Iron and Steel of the value of Two pence which she the said Mary Pomfret then and
there had and held in her Right hand the Throat or Gullet of herself the said Mary Pomfret< no role >
Did then and there strike, slab and penetrate And did thereby then and there give unto
herself with the case knife aforesaid in and upon her said Throat or Gullet One Mortal
wound of the Length of four Inches and of the Depth of Two Inches of which said
mortal Wound she the said Mary Pomfret then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon thereon Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Mary Pomfret not being
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner and
by the Means aforesaid Did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Howard< 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
John Howard< no role > [mark] Foreman