MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty Fifth Day of November in the Twenty third 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
George Paterson< no role > Hughes then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Lawrence< no role > , William Stokes< no role > , Thomas York< no role > , Joseph Pettock Alexander
Eusson< no role > , Phillip Rice, John Sheafe< no role > , William Bowman< no role > John Davis< no role > John Turner< no role >
Samuel Harper< no role > , John Granger< no role > , John Gregory< no role > and John Webster< no role > , William Tatcham< no role >
Thomas Sims< no role > John Gray< no role > and James Lecount< 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 George Paterson< no role > Hughes came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Paterson< no role > Hughes on the Twenty
fourth Day of November in the Year aforesaid being within the Age of
Discretion (to wit) of the Age of Eleven Years or thereabouts And not being able
to Dicorn good from Evil One End of a small Cord to a Wooden Rafter in the
Necessary House of his Father Roderick Hughes< no role > situate in The Land of
Promise in the Parish and County aforesaid And the other End thereof about
his own Neck Did fix, tye and fasten And therewith Did then and there hang
suffocate and strangle himself of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling
he the said George Paterson< no role > Hughes then and there Died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said George Paterson< no role > Hughes
not being of the Age of Discretion nor able to discern good from Evile in Manner and
by the Means aforesaid Did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Lawrence< 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
Willm Lawrence [mark] Foreman