MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Mary White Chapple in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourteenth 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
Elizabeth Simmonds< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Richard Pine< no role > John Clarke< no role > Thomas Fayne< no role > William Boswell< no role > John Byron< no role >
Robert Hawes< no role > William Iron< no role > Henry Jenkins< no role > Anslow William Parker< no role >
William Wilson< no role > John Thorpe< no role > John Hinde< no role > and Richard Workman< 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 Elizabeth Simmonds< no role > came to her
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Elizabeth Simmonds< no role > not being of sound
Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted One the fourteenth
Day of January in the Year aforesaid one End of a small Lord to the Feaster of
a Bed in the House of her Husband Jeremiah Simmonds< no role > situate in Plough Street in the Parish
and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about her own Neck Did fix
tye and fasten And therewith Did then and there hang suffocate and strangle herself
Of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling she the said Elizabeth Simmonds< no role >
then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do
say That the said Elizabeth Simmonds< no role > not being of [..] Mind Memory
and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid Did kill herself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Richard Price< 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

Richd. Price [mark] Foreman