MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Acton in the County of
Middlesex , the second Day of November 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
Thomas Clayden< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Thomas Aldridge< no role > , William Gee< no role > , Thomas Church< no role > John Bagshaw< no role > , John Harrison< no role > , Richard
Hart, Emanuel Freethy< no role > , Thomas Preson< no role > , Christopher Coxford< no role > , Pinnock Holland< no role > , John Street< no role >
William Whittle< no role > , John Roberts< no role > and William Pearce< 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 Thomas Clayden< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Clayden< no role > not being of sound Mind,
memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty ninth Day of October in the
Year aforesaidtheTwo of the Ends of Two Handkerchiefs the one of them Silk the other Linnen
to a Wooden Rafter in The Rivy belonging to the House of George Hayward< no role > of the Parish and County
aforesaid Labourer Victualler and the other Two Ends of the said Handkerchiefs about his own
Neck did fix, tye and fasten and there with did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself
of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling he the said Thomas Clayden< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Thomas Clayden< 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 Thomas Alldridge< no role > This name instance is in set 20180.
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

Thos. Alldridge [mark] Foreman