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AN Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at Saint Andrews Holborn
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty first Day of November 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, Etc, before Edward Umfreville< no role > one of the Coroner s of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Thomas Gardner< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Parsons< no role > James
Dumkerley Edward Groome< no role > Robert Green< no role > Benjamin Hope< no role > James Allcott< no role >
George Thwaite< no role > John Warren< no role > William Arden< no role > Thomas Price< no role > Charles Knight< no role >
Joseph Newell< no role > William Erwin< no role > Charles Mumford< no role > David Ogilby< no role > James Stireys< no role >
John Graingn Samuel Peasee and Henry Matthews< 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 Gardner< no role >
came to h is Death, do upon their oath say, That the said Thomas Gardner< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
distracted on the Nineteenth Day of November in the Year aforesaid with
a certain Sharp Instrument or Weapon Made of Iron and Steel Which he
the said Thomas Gardner< no role > then and there had and held in his Hand the
Throat or Gullet of himself Did then and there Strike stob and penetrate
thereby then and there giving unto himself One Mortal Wound of which
said Mortal Wound he the said Thomas Gardner< no role > then and there died And
so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said
Thomas Gardner< 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 John Parsons< 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

E:Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Parsons< no role > [mark] Foreman