MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the Second Day of July 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
Thomas Parkes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Church< no role > , Ambrose Warfe< no role > , Solomon Williams< no role > , John Remhoff< no role > , William Gander< no role >
William Plaskett< no role > , Philip Wall< no role > , Gregory Mc Carr< no role > , William Arnold< no role > , Thomas Lacon< no role >
George Lambert< no role > , John Brimner< no role > and John Smith< 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 Thomas Parkes< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Thomas Parkes< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth
Day of June in the year aforesaid himself into a Pond of Water situate in Stepney Field
in the Parish and County aforesaid Did last and throw By means whereof he the said
Thomas Parkes< no role > was in the Waters of said Pond then and there suffocated and drowned
of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas [..] then and there died And
So the [..] say That the said Thomas [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Robert Charles< 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

Robt. Church [mark] Foreman