MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
of Saint Matthew Bethnall Green in the County of
Middlesex , the twenty third Day of December in the twenty third 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 Stock< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Hopkins< no role > Nicholas Gordelier< no role > William Hade< no role > William Clarke< no role > Andrew
Hurt James Greenwood< no role > James Risault< no role > William Howard< no role > Henry Bishop< no role >
Joseph Cadogan< no role > Isaac Cosson< no role > , Thomas Samull Daniel Dela Court John
Leverque and Thomas Featherstone< 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 Stock< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That The said John Stock< no role > not being of sound mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the Nineteenth Day
of December in the year aforesaid One End of the small Cord to a Wooden Rafter in a certain
a Place called a Hack House in Mr Scott Field 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 John Stock< no role > then and there died And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said John Stock< no role > not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted in Manner
[..] aforesaid Did kill himself

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Hopkins< 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
Jas Hopkins [mark] Foreman