MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Liberty
of The Savoy in the County of
Middlesex , the Thirty first Day of August 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
Benjamin Powis< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Proctor< no role > Stephen Kempshead< no role > , James Filts< no role > , Joseph Stroud< no role > , John Grint, William
Stelfox James Walls William Webb< no role > Henry Proctor< no role > , James Gallant< no role > Thomas Mansfield< no role >
Samuel Jones< no role > , Benjamin Dawson< no role > and John Kelly< 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 Benjamin Powis< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Benjamin Powis< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty seventh Day of
August in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to acertainWooden Rafter in a certain
Straw Loft< no role > situate in the Precinct and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about
his own Neck did fix, tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang suffocate and strangle
himself, Of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling he the said Benjamin Powis< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Benjamin Powis< 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 William Proctor< 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

Wm Proctor< no role > [mark] Foreman