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 Saint George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Twentieth day of September in the Eighth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace and 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
Elizabeth Gilbert< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Edward
Britten< no role > , John Dibbs< no role > , John Berry< no role > , John Debenham< no role > , Nathaniel Howell< no role > ,
Daniel Machin< no role > , James Peter Coglan< no role > , William Hempson< no role > , Benjamin Cann< no role > , Robert
Davidson< no role > , John Cock< no role > and Thomas Cook< no role > , good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Elizabeth Gilbert< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Elizabeth Gilbert< no role > , not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on
the Nineteenth day of September in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the
Liberty and County aforesaid, a great Quantity of Yellow Arsenic, being a
deadly Poison, into a certain Quantity of hot Water, did then and there put
and mix, and the said Yellow Arsenic so put and mixt as aforesaid, she the said
Elizabeth Gilbert< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but
lunatic and distracted as aforesaid, did then and there take drink and swallow
down; by Means whereof she the said Elizabeth Gilbert< no role > became then and there Sick
and distempered in her Body, and of the Poison aforesaid and of the Sickness
and Distemper thereby occasioned, did languish about five hours at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, and then and
there did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say,
that the said Elizabeth Gilbert< no role > , not being of sound Mind Memory and
Understanding, but lunatic 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 Edward Britten< 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 .

Edwd. Britten< no role > [mark] Foreman