MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Dwelling House
of William Jacobs< no role > known by the Sign of the City Road Coffee House in the Parish Parish of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty second 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
George Pearch< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Robert Bryant< no role > , William Crowther< no role > , John Crowther< no role > , Benjamin Cooper< no role > , Enock Davis< no role > , Richard Smith< no role > , Joseph Catherwood,
Thomas Sondland< no role > , Charles Mowley< no role > , Robert Clements< no role > , Davis Kill< no role > , James Stone< no role > , William Lewis< no role > , Joseph Blanford, Tower Frances John
Parup Joseph Barnett, John Gardner< no role > , William Wright< no role > , Thomas Scollick< no role > , John Bishop< no role > , James Crosby< no role > , and Robert Collins< 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 George Pearch came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said George Pearch not being of Sound Mind Memory and understanding but
Lunatic and Distracted on the Twenty first Day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid one End of a Certain
Piece of Hempen lord Called Halter of the Value of Two Pence fastened unto a beam in a Certain Hayloft over a low house Adjoining
the Dwelling House of the said George Pearch there Situate and being 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 George Pearch did then and there Instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said George
Pearch 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 Robert Bryant< 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 DayandYear and place first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
Robt Bryant [mark] Foreman