MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fifth Day of April in the Twenty fifth 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
William Higginbotham< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Farmer< no role > , Thomas Overton< no role > , Lawrance Sinclair, Robert Forfar< no role > , James Anderson< no role >
Gates Dowsing< no role > , James Parrott< no role > , Patrick Mordaunt< no role > , Alexander Maxwell< no role > , Thomas
Stratford , William Davis< no role > and George Perry< 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 William Higginbotham< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said William Higginbotham< no role > not being of
sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the third
Day of November in the Year aforesaid himself into The River Thames at Blackwall
lin the Hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall in the Parishand County of Saint Dunstan
Stepney in the County aforesaid did last and throw By Means whereof he the said
William Higginbotham< no role > was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and
drowned. Of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said William Higginbotham< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That
the said William Higginbotham< no role > not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding
but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by themeans aforesaid did drown and
kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Farmer< 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 Farmers [mark] Foreman