MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.)}

AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Christ Church in the County of
Middlesex , the Tenth Day of May in the twenty second 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
Benjamin Manakee< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Joseph Walker< no role > , Richard Child< no role > , John Cuthbert< no role > , Thomas Arundell< no role > , William Hall< no role > , Hugh Williams< no role > ,
John Thorp< no role > , John Hudson< no role > , Richard Warner< no role > , Francis Read< no role > , John Bracher< no role > , Charles Bell< no role > ,
William Sedgwick< no role > , Benjamin Soloway< no role > , John Bowden< no role > , John Desoer, Thomas Taylor< no role > , William
Wilson, William Moorhouse< no role > , Job Clark< no role > , and John Scott< 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 Benjamin Manakee< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Benjamin Manakee not being of sound
Mind, Memory and understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Ninth Day of
May in the Year aforesaid One End of a small Cord to a Wooden Rafter in The
wash house belonging to the Dwelling House of him the said Benjamin Manakee Situate in
Whites Row 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
Benjamin Manakee< no role > then and there Died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
[..]
Did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Joseph Walker< 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

Joseph Walker< no role > [mark] Foreman