MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty eighth 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, on View of the Body of
James Phillips< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Kellow< no role > James Herrington< no role > Robert Jones< no role > Daniel [..] William Barge
John Clowright< no role > Robert Cockbourn< no role > Henry Bradley< no role > Benjamin Wood< no role > John Harper< no role >
John Henfree< no role > and William Holby< 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 James Phillips< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said James Phillips< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the
Twenty fifth Day of January in the Year aforesaid one End of a small Cord
to an Iron Hook in the picking of the Lodging Room or Apartment of him
the said James Phillips< no role > in the House of William Meredith< no role > situate 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 James Phillips< no role > then and there Died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say that the said James the Apartment 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 John Kellow< 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

The Mark of
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John Kellow} [mark] Foreman