MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the thirtieth Day of January 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 > Esquire
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Seth Rownson< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Clift< no role > , John Stanford< no role > , Isaac Blackburn< no role > James Paulin< no role > , James Setly, William Rowed,
Paul Johnson< no role > John Fletcher< no role > Thomas Everton< no role > Thomas Sherman< no role > Thomas Arnold< no role > , William
Thomas, Thomas James< no role > , William Hastings< 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 Seth Rownson< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Seth Rownson< no role > not being of sound mind memory
and understanding but Lunatic and distracted in the Twenty seventh Day of January in
the Year aforesaid One End of a Silk Handkerchief to the Foot Tester of a Bed in the Dwelling
House of his Father Richard Rownson< no role > situate 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 stangle himself Of which said hanging Suffocation and Stangling he the
said Seth Rownson< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do
say that the said Seth Rownson< 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 John Clift< 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
John Clift [mark] Foreman