MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at [..]
[..] the Parish of Saint Mary Islington in the County of
Middlesex the Nineteenth 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
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
Thomas Taylor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Richardson< no role > , Gilbert Cradie< no role > , Samuel Austin< no role > , James Saxby Samuel Sabey, William
Badeder John Turze, William Shephard< no role > Donald Mac Donald< no role > , Oliver Dixie< no role > Daniel Smith, James
Charlesworth< no role > , Charles Mills< no role > Thomas Tracy< no role > John Watkins< 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 Thomas Taylor< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Taylor< no role > not being of sound mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Fourteenth Day of
July in the Year aforesaid himself into the New River near Cannonbury House
in the Parish and County aforesaid did last and throw By means whereof he the said
Thomas Taylor< no role > was in the Waters of the said River then and there suffocated and
drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Thomas Taylor< no role > then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Thomas Taylor< 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 John Richardson< 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 Richardson< no role > [mark] Foreman