MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Mary Whitechapell in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty third 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
Richard Kelly< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Henry Pringle< no role > , William Pitches< no role > , James Fletcher< no role > , Henry Thake< no role > , John Revell< no role >
Gamaliel Andrews< no role > , John Byworth< no role > John Johnson< no role > , Thomas Williams< no role > , William Howard< no role >
Smith, John Elger< no role > and William Johnson< 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 Richard Kelly< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Richard Kelly< no role > not being of sound mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eleventh Day of July
in the Year aforesaid with a Chissell made of Iron and Steel of the Value of Six pence
which he the said Richard Kelly< no role > then and there had and held in his right Hand
the Throat or Gullet of himselfthe said Richard Kelly< no role > did then and there strike, stab and penetate thereby
then and there giving unto himself with the Chissell aforesaid in and upon his said Throat
or Gullet One mortal Wound of the Length of Four Inches and of the Depth of One Inch
Of which said mortal wound he the said Richard Kelly< no role > from the said Eleventh Day of July
in the Year aforesaid Untill the twenty first Day of the same month in the same Year at
the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did Languish and Languishing did live, On which
said Twenty first Day of July in the Year aforesaid he the said Richard Kelly< no role > at the Parish
aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Mortal Wound aforesaid did die And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Richard Kelly< 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 Henry Pringle< 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
Henry Pringle [mark] Foreman