MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint George in the County of
Middlesex , the Seventh Day of January in the twenty third 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
Henry Blaine< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
William Mc. Dowell< no role > John Read< no role > Joseph Bacon< no role > Joshua Jones< no role > Thomas Tarrall< no role >
Edward Billes< no role > Robert Bennet< no role > Thomas Bayley< no role > Thomas S [..] morks James
Roddey Charles Bennett Francis Baow and Solomon Williams< 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 Henry Blaine< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Henry Blaine< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the
Thirty first Day of December in the year aforesaid with a certain Clasp Knife
made of Iron and Steel of the Value of Two Pence which he the said Henry
Blaine then and there had and held in his Right Hand the Throat or Gullet
of himself Did then and there strike, stab and Penetrate thereby then and there
giving unto himself in and upon his said Threat or Gullet one mortal Wound of the Length of Four Inches and of the
Depth of Half an Inch Of which said Mortal Wound he the said Henry Blaine< no role >
from the said Thirty first Day of December in the year aforesaid untill the fifth
Day [..] in the same Year at the [..] the County
aforesaid Did Languish and Languishing did Live On which said fifth
Day of January in the Year aforesaid he the said Henry Blaine< no role > at the
Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid Of the mortal Wound aforesaid
Did Die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say
That the said Henry Blaine< 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 William Mc. Dowell< no role >
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 Mc Dowell [mark] Foreman