Middlesex ,
To wit.}

AN Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish of Hampstead
in the County of Middlesex , the thirteenth Day of December 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
KING, for the said County, on view of the body of John Taylor< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Riddell< no role > John
Webb John< no role > Cousins John< no role > Bishop Joseph< no role > Davies Joseph< no role > Evans Henry< no role >
Hay James Wilkinson< no role > Thomas Bacon< no role > Thomas Rice< no role > James Poulter< no role >
Joseph Gilbert< no role > and Richard Cook< 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 John Taylor< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said John Taylor< no role >
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
and distracted on the Eleventh Day of December in the Year aforesaid
himself into a Pond of Water in the Parish and County aforesaid did Cast
and Throw By Means whereof he the said John Taylor< no role > was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned Of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said John Taylor< no role > then and there died And so the
Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John
Taylor 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 as the said Coroner, as the said John Riddell< 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.

Jno: Riddell [mark] Foreman