Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 147 of 6324th April 1782


MIDDLESEX .
(To wit.) }


AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint Luke in the County of
Middlesex , the Fourth Day of April 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
Elizabeth Bultitude then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Enever< no role > , Robert Fisher< no role > , William Lowe< no role > , Charles Smith< no role > , William Newton< no role > , Charles,
Moesley, David Hill< no role > , Charles Hall< no role > , Andrew Darling< no role > , William Roylands< no role > , John Boyce< no role >
George Denton< no role > , John Bean< no role > John Cambrook< no role > , Edward Wills< no role > , Peter Hughes< no role > , John Duggan< no role >
Enoch Davis< no role > and Nathaniel Whitehead< 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 Elizabeth Bultitude came to her
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Elizabeth Bultitude not being of
sound Mind, Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted on the third
Day of April in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the County aforesaid one ounce
of White Arsenic< no role > being a deadly Poison did take and swallow down. By Means whereof
she the said Elizabeth Bultitude then and there became sick and distempered in her
Body and of the Parish aforesaid of the Sickness and Distemper thereby
[..] aforesaid upon the oath
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Enever< 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

John Enever [mark] Foreman< no role >




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