MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the Thirtieth 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
Sarah Bentley< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Legg< no role > , William Bridges< no role > , Thomas Tyrell< no role > , William Muscot< no role > , William Allen< no role > Daniel
Holmes, Robert Carmen, Paul Randall< no role > , William Field< no role > , James Nowladd< no role > , John Raymouth< no role > and
Samuel Kentish< no role > Joshua Morris< no role > and Thomas Burgess< 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 Bentley< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Sarah Bentley< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty Eighth Day of July
in the Year aforesaid herself out of a Three Pair of Stairs Window in the Dwelling House of
her Husband Richard Bentley< no role > situate in the Parish and County aforesaid to and against the
Ground there did cast and throw By Means whereof she the said Sarah Bentley< no role > did then
and there receive divers mortal Bruises in and upon the Head Body, Back and Arms of her
the said Sarah Bentley< no role > , Of which said mortal Bruises she the said Sarah Bentley< no role > then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Sarah Bentley< no role > not being of sound MindMemory 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 Richard Legg< 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
Richard Legg< no role > [mark] Foreman