Middlesex
(to wit)}

An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish of
Saint Leonard BromleySaint Mary Stratford< no role > Bow in the County of Middlesex the Fifteenth day of March
in the twentyFifthSixth 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 one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County on View of the
Body of Ann Earle< no role > then and there lying dead upon the Oath of William
Robgin, John Giles< no role > , John Forder< no role > , John Srandfast, Pleympton Waltom, Henry
Percy and< no role > James Cole< no role > William Cardinal< no role > Robert Robins< no role > Thomas White< no role >
Joseph Barrow< no role > Robert Page< no role > and Patrick Ward< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the King when how and by what means
the said Ann Earle< no role > came to her Death do upon their Oath say That
the said Ann Earle< no role > not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic
and distracted on the Fourteenth Day of March in the Year aforesaid herself into a Pond
of Water in a Field belonging to James Hatch< no role > situate in the Parish and County aforesaid
did cast and throw By Means whereof she the said Ann Earle< no role > was in the Waters of
the said Pond then and there suffocated and drowned, of which said Suffocation and
Drowning she the said Ann Earle< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the said Ann Earle< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in manner and
by the means aforesaid did drown and kill herself

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said William Robginthe
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
Wm Robgin [mark] Foreman