MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish of
Saint Mary Stratford Bow in the County of
Middlesex , the second Day of April 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 Adams< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Dalby< no role > John Oliver< no role > Henry Thatcher< no role > James Clarke< no role > John Williams< no role > John Proscutt Robert
Adams John Miles< no role > William Gill< no role > , Patrick Ward< no role > Robert Sovall< no role > John Hutley< no role > and John Pack< 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 Adams< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Adams< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Thirty first day of March in the year aforesaid himself into a Cut of
Water called The New Cut situate in the Parish and County aforesaid did last and
throw By Means whereof he the said John Adams< no role > was in the Waters of the said
Cut then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning
he the said John Adams< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Adams< 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 John Dalby< 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

John Dalby< no role > [mark] Foreman