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Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1296">Midsex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations taken this <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65208_date263">20th. day of September<lb></lb>
1768</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1297">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the Liberty of Westmr. in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1298">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on an<lb></lb>
Inquisition touching the Death of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1347-1">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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<lb></lb>
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and County.</p>
<p n="1348"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1348-1">John Debenham</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ389">Journeyman</rs>
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to Mr. Foot <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ390">Apothecary</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
<del>little George Street</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1299">Oxford Road</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1300">Parish of St. Marylebone</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That yesterday about five o' Clock in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1348-2">Elizabeth Gilbert</rs>
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the Deced came into Mr. Foot's Shop<lb></lb>
and asked for a Penny worth of Arsenic to destroy Rats which<lb></lb>
she was much Troubled with, Says that he served her with<lb></lb>
a pennyworth of Yellow Arsenic, and then Dept. took it<lb></lb>
away with her, Says that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1348-3">George Gilbert</rs>
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Husband to the<lb></lb>
Deced came in about half an hour to Mr. Foot's Shop<lb></lb>
to enquire what the Deced had bought there, saying that<lb></lb>
she had taken it, upon which he was advised to give her<lb></lb>
some Sweet Oil, Says that between Eight and nine o' Clock<lb></lb>
last Night Dept went to Deced, who was then Sensible,<lb></lb>
and some Women there, & Deced's Husband told Dept. that she had taken all the Arsenic, as she<lb></lb>
informed them, Says that the Deced had Vomited<lb></lb>
very much, and that he afterwards gave her a Vomit<lb></lb>
that she was very bad, and that he had no hopes of her<lb></lb>
Recovery, Says that She died about Eleven o' Clock<lb></lb>
last Night as Dept. was informed, and believes that<lb></lb>
the Arsenic abovementioned occasioned her Death.</p>
<p n="1349"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1349-1">John Debenham</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1350"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1350-1">George Gilbert</rs>
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a Lodger at Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65208_n1350-2">Mary Sims</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1301">little<lb></lb>
George Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65208_geo1302">Parish of St. George Hanover Square</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his Oath saith, That yesterday between five and six<lb></lb>
o' Clock in the Afternoon Deced told this Dept. that<lb></lb>
she had taken a Dose, upon which Dept. went to Mr.<lb></lb>
Foot an <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65208_occ391">Apothecary</rs>
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who told him that she had bought<lb></lb>
Arsenic there and Advised Dept. to give her Sweet Oil</p>
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