Middlesex
(to wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign LORD the KING, at the House of
Benjamin Richards< no role > the Sign of the Gate House Highgate in
the Parish of Hornsey in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty eighth Day of October in the Thirty ninth 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 George Hodgson< no role > Gent
one of the CORONER S of our said LORD the KING, for the said County, on View of the Body of
Thomas Castor< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
the several Persons whose Names are hereunder-written and Seals affixed, 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
Thomas Caster< no role > came to his [..]
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Caster< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatic and distracted in
the twenty seventh Day of October in the Year aforesaid at the Parish
and in the County aforesaid with a certain Razor there the Throat or
Gullet of him the said Thomas Caster< no role > did cut and penetrate
thereby giving unto himself one mortal Wound of which he
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid do say
that the said Thomas Caster< no role > not being of sound Mind as
aforesaid in Manner and by the Means aforesaid did
kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said CORONER asthe said Roger Chandless< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, and the Rest of his said Fellows, have, to this Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals, the Day, Year, and Place first above-written.

Geo. Hodgson< no role > Coroner [mark]
Roger Chandless< no role > [mark]
Wm Astill< no role > [mark]
Stephen Hall< no role > [mark]
Thomas Danes< no role > [mark]
John Williams< no role > [mark]
George Martin< no role > [mark]
Jno. Worley< no role > [mark]

Wm Anderson< no role > [mark]
John Goodman< no role > [mark]
William Englefield< no role > [mark]
John Maynard< no role > [mark]
John Kirby< no role > [mark]
John Archer< no role > [mark]
Samuel Colckin< no role > [mark]