MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Ann in the County of
Middlesex , the fourth Day of December in the twenty Second 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
Daniel Brimes< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Burgh< no role > Robert Cockbourn< no role > Robert Grigg< no role > William Layton< no role > John Plowright< no role >
Thomas Williamson< no role > Samuel Carter< no role > James Davies< no role > John Rellow John Buckshaw< no role >
James Rathborne< no role > Jonathan Rathborne< no role > & Richard Petit< 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 Daniel Brimes< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Daniel Brimes< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted one End of a small
Cord to a Bough of a Tree in a certain Field called Johnsons Field near Bow Common
in the Parish and County aforesaid and the other End there [..] bout his own Neck
[..] and therewith did then and there [..] and strangle
[..] Hanging Suffocation [..] Daniel
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said William Bargh
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 Bargh [mark] Foreman