MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Hamlet
of Ratcliff in the Parish of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the County of
Middlesex , the ninth Day of December 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
Robert Hunt< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Barnfield< no role > , George Penny< no role > , William Wilkinson< no role > , Arthur Heavens< no role > , William Shelton< no role > John Campbell< no role >
Isaac Easteridge< no role > , William Pettit< no role > , John Blake< no role > , William Hobbs< no role > , John Taylor< no role > and John Jameson< 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 Robert Hunt< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Robert Hunt< no role > not being of sound, Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Eighth Day of December in the Year
aforesaid One End of a Piece of Spun Yarn to a Bed post in the Lodging Room or Apartment of
him the said Robert Hunt< no role > situate in Queen Street in the Hamlet aforesaid 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 Robert Hunt< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Robert Hunt< 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 James Barnfield< 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

James Barnfield< no role > [mark] Foreman