City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of Westminster
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Sixth day of July in the Eighth 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 Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
Isabella Bates< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John
Rush< no role > , Richard Price< no role > , John Stort< no role > , John Paxton< no role > , Joseph Baylis< no role > , Benjamin
Sodan< no role > , Thomas Gritton< no role > , John Saxey< no role > , James Mason< no role > , John Finlayson< no role > ,
James Wild< no role > , William Morrison< no role > , Benjamin Virtue< no role > , George Field< no role > ,
Dan. Rainbow< no role > and Lewis Zubre< no role > good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Isabella Bates came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Isabella Bates, not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the
Fourth day of July in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the City
Liberty and County aforesaid, a large Quantity of Laudanum did then and
there take drink and swallow down, by Means whereof she the said
Isabella Bates became then and there sick and distempered in her Body,
and of the Laudanum aforesaid, being a deadly Poison, and of the Sickness
and Distemper thereby occasioned, from the said Fourth day of July in the
Year aforesaid, untill the Fifth day of the same Month, in the same Year,
at the Parish aforesaid within the City Liberty and County aforesaid, did
languish and languishing did live, on which said said Fifth day of July
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the City Liberty and County
aforesaid, she the said Isabella Bates of the Poison aforesaid, and of the
Sickness and Distemper occasioned thereby, did die. And so the Jurors
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Isabella Bates
not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding but lunatick
and distracted, in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did Poison and
kill herself. In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the
said John Rush< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the 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

Tho. Prickard< no role > [mark] Coroner .

Jno. Rush< no role > [mark] Foreman