Middlesex ,
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AN Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Parish of Saint Mary [..]
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty third Day of November in the 22d 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 Coroners of Our said Lord the
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of Samuel Hickman< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Finder John
Cornvall, Thomas Proudfoot< no role > , Richard Haselton< no role > , James Scott< no role > , Thomas Welbank< no role >
Richard Chapell< no role > , William Ponting< no role > , John Edmonson< no role > , Edward Manley< no role > , Rice
Jones, John Coleman< no role > , David Morrie< no role > , John Armstrong< no role > Nicholas Plisse< no role >
and Edward Leadows< 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 Samuel Hickman< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Samuel
Hickman not being of sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
and Distracted on the Twentieth Day of November in the Year aforesaid
[..] with a certain Sharp Instrument made of Iron and Steel the Throat
or Gullet of himself did then and there strike, stab and Penetrate thereby
then and there giving unto himself One Mortal Wound in and upon his said,
Throat or Gullett Of which said Mortal Wound he the said Samuel Hickman< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Samuel Hickman< 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 saidthe 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.

Jno Trinder [mark] Foreman