MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Mary White Chapell in the County of
Middlesex , the third Day of March 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
John Nixon< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Rogers< no role > , Benjamin Rice< no role > This name instance is in set 3176. , Thomas Bedwell< no role > , John Hammond< no role > , Nathaniel Reddington William
Swan Joseph Flamstone William Clarke< no role > Samuel Monk< no role > Charles, Meyers Thomas Mole< no role > , and
Richard Thompson< 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 John Nixon< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Nixon< no role > not being of sound Mind, Memory
and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the second Day of March in the Year aforesaid
at the Parish of Saint John Hackney in the County aforesaid One End of a piece of String to the
Trigger of a Gun loaded with Gun powder and Two Leaden Bullets and the other End thereof to the
Foot Post of a Bed did fix, tye and fasten And the said Gun to at and against the Body of
him the said John Nixon< no role > did then and there shoot off and discharge thereby then and there giving
unto himself with the Leaden Bulletts aforesaid so shot off and discharged out of the said Gun
by Force of the Gun powder aforesaid One Mortal Wound in and upon the Right Side of the
Belly which penetrated through the Back of him the said John Nixon< no role > Of which said mortal
wound he the said John Nixon< no role > from the said second day of March in the Year aforesaid
untill the Third Day of the same month in the same Year at the Parish aforesaid in the
County aforesaid And also at the Parish of Saint Mary White Chapell in the County aforesaid
to wit in a certain Hospital there situate called The London Hospital did Languish and
Languishing did live on which said third Day of March in the Year aforesaid he the said
John Nixon< no role > at theParishHospital aforesaid in the County aforesaid of the Mortal Wound aforesaid
did Die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said John
Nixon 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 Rogers< 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 Rogers< no role > [mark] Foreman