Middlesex ,
to wit

{
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Parish of Fulham
in the County Middlesex the sixth Day of October 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, Etc. before Thomas Phillips< no role > one of the Coroners of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on veiw of the body of Thomas Walker< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Matthew Webster< no role >
James Morgan< no role > , Edward Price< no role > , George Needs< no role > , Benjamin Guest< no role > , John Torry< no role > , John
Whitlock< no role > , Edward Dalton< no role > , William Smith< no role > , Thomas Bottomley< no role > , William Marriot< no role >
Francis Ward< no role > , Francis Fennell< no role > , Lavender Layton< no role > , Edward Stone< no role > , Thomas Ashby< no role >
John Richardson< no role > , Joseph Castle< no role > , Francis Peck< no role > and Thomas Giddings< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by law required and who being, then and there duly sworn
and charged, to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Thomas Walker< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas
Walker not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
distracted on the fourth Day of October in the Year aforesaid one End of a small
Cord to a Wooden Ridge in the necessary House of John Gale< no role > situate in the
Parish 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 Thomas Walker< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Thomas Walker< 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, Matthew Webster< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Matthew Webster< no role > [mark] Foreman