MIDDLESEX
(To Wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, Taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Fulham in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty seventh Day of October in the twenty sixth 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
Ann Westbrooke< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
George Needs< no role > Lavender Layton< no role > Nathaniel Cheasmore< no role > , Francis Peck< no role > , Samuel Flucks, James
Phillips, John Grinstead< no role > , Frances Fennell< no role > , William Marriott< no role > , John Watts< no role > , John Postan< no role > , Richard
Henley< no role > , Robert Buckland< no role > , Edward Hudnot, Thomas Gover, John Cooper< no role > , Charles Young< no role > , Edward
Rice, James Morgan< no role > Joseph Castle< no role > Thomas Fleaming< no role > Warmer Orchard< no role > and Thomas Green< 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 Ann Westbrooke< no role > came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Ann Westbrooke< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty fifth Day of October in the
Year aforesaid one End of a small Cord to the Door of her wash house situate 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 Ann Westbrooke< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
Oath aforesaid do say That the said Ann Westbrooke< no role > not being of sound 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 Coroners as the said George Needs< 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
George Needs [mark] Foreman