MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Sain Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the fourteenth 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
Elizabeth Summerton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Milnes< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , William Pomfret< no role > , Peter Keckwick< no role > , Hugh Carr< no role >
Stephen Godfrey< no role > , John Plowright< no role > , James Davis< no role > , Thomas Oliver< no role > , Samuel Eastfield< no role >
John Brown< no role > , James Rankin< no role > and James Braithwaite< 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 Elizabeth Summerton came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Elizabeth Summerton not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Sixth Day of June
in the Year aforesaid herself into the River Thames near The Horse Ferry in the Parish
and County aforesaid did cast and throw By Means whereof she the said Elizabeth Summerton< no role >
was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and drowned of which
and Suffocation and Drowning she the said Elizabeth Summerton then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Elizabeth
Summerton not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
distracted in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Milnes< 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 Inquisiition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Jno. Milnes [mark] Foreman