MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Mary Stratford Bow in the County of
Middlesex , the Twentieth 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
Sarah Hancock< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Edmund Burford< no role > , Samuel Collett< no role > , George Dunking< no role > , Joseph Webb< no role > , Jacob Targett< no role > , John
Budd, Charles Balderson< no role > , Robert Green< no role > , John Williams< no role > , Michael Kelly< no role > , John
Frith, John Thornton< no role > William Bailey< no role > and Jonathan Ramsey< 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 Sarah Hancock< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Sarah Hancock< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eighteenth
Day of June in the Year aforesaid One End of a large Pitched Rope to a Wooden
Beam in a Loft adjoyning to the Dwelling House of Fortune Hancock situate in
the Parish and County aforesaid And the other End thereof about her own neck
fix tye and fasten And therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and strange
herself of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling She the said Sarah Hancock< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do, say That
the said Sarah Hancock< no role > not being of 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 Edmund Burford< 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

Edmund Burford< no role > [mark] Foreman