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 Seventh Day of April 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
Thomas Grafton< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Christopher Dix< no role > , Alexander Adams< no role > , Christian Awe< no role > , James Roberts< no role > , John
Pounceby, John Hale< no role > , Robert Maberley< no role > . Thomas Drown< no role > William Mickerson George
Hunter< no role > , William Hastings< no role > Thomas Sherman< no role > William Wilkins< no role > and Thomas Arnold< 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 Thomas Grafton< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Thomas Grafton< no role > not being of sound mind
memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the seventh Day of April in the
Year aforesaid [..] One End of a small Cord to a Nail fixed in the Wainscot in his
Apartment in the House of Samuel Day< no role > 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 Thomas
Grafton then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the
said Thomas Grafton< 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 Christopher Dix< 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
Christpr. Dix [mark] Foreman