MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Hanwell in the County of
Middlesex , the seventh Day of June 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
John Dark< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John George< no role > , Andrew Mc Millan< no role > William Pope< no role > , Bartholomew Godfrey< no role > , Daniel Abbott< no role > , Henry
Farrant< no role > , John Tame< no role > , John Battey< no role > , John Case< no role > , Thomas Leigh< no role > , John Clark< no role > , Joseph Watson< no role >
Philip Bridgman< no role > , Joseph Reed< no role > and William Tovey< 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 Dark came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That some Person or Persons to the Jurors aforesaid
as yet unknown not having the Fear of God before his her or their Eyes but being
moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Third Day of June in the
Year aforesaid with Force and Arms at the Parish of Ealing in the County aforesaid
in and upon the said John Dark in the Peace of God and of our said Lord the King
then and there being feloniously wilfully and of his, her or their malice aforethought
did make an Assault And That the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid as yet unknown
a certain Horse Pistol of the Value of five Shillings loaded with Gun powder and a Logden
Bullet which the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown then and there had
and held in his, her or their Hands to, at and against the said John Dark< no role > did then and
there feloniously, wilfully and of his, her or their Malice aforethought shoot off and discharge
And that the said Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown did then and there give unto
the said John Darkwith the Leaden Bullet aforesaid so shot off and discharged out of the
Pistol aforesaid by the Force of the Gun powder aforesaid one mortal wound in and through
the Body of him the said John Dark, Of which said mortal wound he the said John Dark< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said
Person or Persons so as aforesaid unknown him the said John Dark in Manner and by the
Means aforesaid feloniously wilfully and of his her or their Malice aforethought did kill and
murder against the Peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John George< 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
Jno George [mark] Foreman