MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty sixth 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
John Chapman< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Weatherhead< no role > John Eate< no role > George Allweather< no role > Richard Davis< no role > Edward Chester< no role >
Henry Corder< no role > , Bernard Cary< no role > Samuel Knightley< no role > Thomas Osborne< no role > James Bartlett< no role >
William Wand George Cope< no role > and John Snackingburgh< 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 John Chapman< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Chapman< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding But Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty
fifth Day of March in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Wooden
Beam in the Workshop of Richard Farrell< 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 John Chapman< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
Say That the said John Chapman< 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 Weatherhead< 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 Weatherhead [mark] Foreman