MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Jack Straw's
Castle inthe Parish of Hampstead in the County of
Middlesex , the Sixth Day of July 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
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Sarah Jones< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Jones< no role > Simon Young< no role > Henry Kay< no role > Leonard Gale< no role > James Poulter Joseph Todd< no role >
William Feltwell< no role > Richard Cook< no role > John Rudd< no role > William Cole< no role > John Bitton< no role > , Thomas
Marryatts Robert Hill< no role > , Simon Edwards< no role > , and John Campbell< 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 Sarah Jones< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Sarah Jones< no role > on the first Day of July
in the Year aforesaid not being of sound mind, memory and understanding but
Lunatic and distracted herself into a Pond of Water Situate in Hatches Bottom in the
Parish and County aforesaid did last and throw By means whereof she the said
Sarah Jones< no role > was in the Waters of the said Pond then and there suffocated and
drowned Of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Sarah Jones< no role > then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Sarah Jones< no role > 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 Innes< 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 Innes [mark] Foreman