MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mathew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth 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
George Leeds< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Shretten< no role > , John Sugar< no role > , Josiah Boydell< no role > , Joseph Dent< no role > , Thomas Hindman< no role >
Robert Wrightson< no role > Thomas Rubey< no role > , John Townsend< no role > , William Thomas< no role > , Joseph Philpot< no role >
Daniel Farmer< no role > , John Billett< no role > , John Johnson< no role > Junior and Alexander Dow< 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 George Leeds< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Leeds< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eighth Day of June
in the Year aforesaid himself into a Pond of Water in a Field called The fifteen
Acres situate near Old Ford Lane in the Parish and County aforesaid did cast and
throw By Means where he the said George Leeds< no role > was in the Waters of the said
Pond then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation and
Drowning he the said George Leeds< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said George Leeds< 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 James Stratten< 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 heir Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jas Stratten [mark] Foreman