MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighth 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 Kendall< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Beard< no role > , Samuel Warren< no role > , Thomas Sabbage, John Meredith< no role > , James Turpin< no role > ,
John Skinner< no role > , Joseph Brown< no role > , William Bowman< no role > , John Thurman< no role > , John Davis< no role > , Robert
Howton, John Armstrong< no role > , Samuel Harper< no role > , John Painter< no role > , Charles Andrews< no role > , William Aylet< no role >
John Gray< no role > , William Roure, Joseph Harrison< no role > and John Haydon< 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 Kendall< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Kendall< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the seventh Day of June
in the Year aforesaid with a certain Razor made of Iron Steel of the value of Two
pence which he the said John Kendall< no role > then and there had and held in his Right hand
the Throat or Gullet of himself did then and there strike, stab and penetrate thereby then
and there giving unto himself with the Razor aforesaid One Mortal Wound Of the
Length of Four Inches which Penetrated through the windpipe of him the said John
kendall, Of which said Mortal Wound he the said John Kendall< no role > then and there instantly
died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said John
Kendall 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 Beard< 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
W Beard [mark] Foreman