MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty fifth 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
Samuel Jackson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Brown< no role > Isaac Page< no role > Samuel Cuirton< no role > James Susan John Ingles John Davis< no role > George Mulliner< no role >
John Armstrong< no role > Samuel Harper< no role > John Potter< no role > John Ray< no role > Edward Cox< no role > James Gratton Thomas Pike< no role > Abraham
Bibbin John Gray< no role > Charles Freelove< no role > and James Lescount< 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 Samuel Jackson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Samuel Jackson< no role > not being of sound, Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Twenty fourth Day of November
in the Year aforesaid and End of a small cord to a Wooden Rafter in a necessary House situate in
Crown Court in the Parish and County aforesaid and the other End thereof about his own Neck
did fix, tye and fasten and therewith did then and there hang, suffocate and strangle himself
of which said Hanging, Suffocation and Strangling he the said Samuel Jackson< no role > then and there
died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Samuel Jackson< 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 Joseph Brown< 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

Joseph Brown [mark] Foreman