MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish of
Saint John Wapping [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty third Day of January 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, in View of the Body of
John Pennycook< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Russell< no role > Ambrose Bradley< no role > William Vexzey< no role > Thomas Coe< no role > William Elliott< no role >
John Meers< no role > Robert Forsyth< no role > John Bluck< no role > Benjamin Robinson< no role > Robert Church< no role >
James French< no role > Richard Moore< no role > James Randall< no role > Joseph Hare< no role > and Thomas Eames< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chose, 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 John Pennycook< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Pennycook< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted [..] on the twenty
second day of January in the year aforesaid One End of a Silk Handkerchief
to the Foot Rail of his Bed in the Lodging Room or Apartment of him the
said John Pennycook< no role > situate in Gun Alley in the parish and County aforesaid
and the other End about his own Neck did fix tie and fasten and therewith
did then and there hang suffocate ad strangle himself of which said
Hanging suffocation and Strangling he the said John Pennycook< no role > then and
[..] and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
that the said John Pennycook< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding but [..] lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Russell< 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

William Russell< no role > [mark] Foreman