Middlesex ,
to wit

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at The Parish of Saint Paul
Shadwell in the County Middlesex , the seventh 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 Joseph Lodge< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of Joseph Ellis< no role >
Robert Copley< no role > , John Bryan< no role > , Christian Awe< no role > , Gater Dowsing< no role > , James Roberts< no role >
John Vertue< no role > , William Simmonds< no role > , George Taylor< no role > , Alexander Small< no role > , Thomas
Wheeler, Benjamin Cooper< no role > , Samuel Ratstone< no role > , John Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Richard
Batley< no role > , George Trotter< no role > and James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.

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 Joseph Lodge< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Joseph
Lodge 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 Gimblet in the wall of his Apartment in the House of
Wright 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 Joseph Lodge< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Joseph Lodge< 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, Joseph Ellis< 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

Joseph Ellis [mark] Foreman