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 Fourth Day of March 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
Thomas Faldon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Roddey< no role > William Ford< no role > Edward Higgs< no role > Thomas Tyrrell Verner Noath Joseph
Randall Thomas< no role > Parnell Edward Decks Stephen Doyle< no role > Edward Smith< no role > James Clarke< no role >
and James Newlan< 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 Faldon< no role > came to his
Death do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Faldon< no role > on the Third day of
March in the Year aforesaid not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted one end of a small Cord to a Bail in the Cieling of
his Apartment Situate in Castle Street in the Parish aforesaid in the County
aforesaid and the Other end thereof about his own Neck did fix Tie and fasten
And therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle himself
Of which said Hanging Suffocation and Strangling he the said Thomas
Faldon then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oaths
aforesaid Do Say that the said Thomas Faldon< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in manner and
by the means aforesaid did Hang and Kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Roddey< 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

James Roddey [mark] Foreman