Southwark

Thomas Shelton< no role >
Corr. [mark]

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the parish of
Saint George within the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surrey on the twenty
fourth day of July in the thirty fifth 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 Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord
the King for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of John
Carlisle now here lying dead by the oath of Edward Dalstone Thomas Handy< no role > Thomas
Dagnell William Hall< no role > William Jones< no role > Thomas Hayton< no role > William Deprosehind Henry Stroud< no role >
William Theakstone< no role > Joseph Soughton< no role > Matthew Hughes< no role > and Robert Wood< no role > good and lawful
men of the Borough of Southwark aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and
charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said John
Carlisle came to his death say upon their oath that the said John Carlisle< no role > on the twenty
first day of July in the year aforesaid not being of sound mind memory and understanding but
lunatic and distracted at the parish aforesaid within the Borough of Southwark aforesaid in
the County aforesaid a certain quantity of deadly poison called Arsenic did then and there
swallow and take into his body by means whereof the said John Carlisle< no role > then and there
became and was mortally sick and diseased in his body of which said mortal sickness and
disease the said John Carlisle< no role > did then and there die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their
oath aforesaid to say that the said John Carlisle< no role > inot being of sound mind memory and
understanding but lunatic and distracted in manner and by the means aforesaid did
kill and poison himself In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said Robert
Wood the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in
their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and
place first above written

Robt Wood< no role > [mark]