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 Margaret
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Ninth day of July in the Twelfth Year
of the Regin 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
Elizabeth Jennings< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of James Loton< no role > ,
Lewis Boidin< no role > , Alexander Lowe< no role > , George Friswell< no role > , Alexander Callan< no role > , Thomas Fidgeon< no role > ,
John Cranstone< no role > , Nathaniel Bagshaw< no role > , William Thomas< no role > , Thomas George< no role > , Thomas
Nicholson< no role > , and Richard Wetenhall< 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 Elizabeth Jennings< no role > came to
h er Death, do upon their Oath say , That the said Elizabeth Jennings< no role > not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted, on the Seventh day
of July in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid,
a great Quantity of Arsenick, being a deadly Poison, into a certain
Quantity of Water did then and there put and mix, and the said White Arsenick
so put and mixt as aforesaid, she the said Elizabeth Jennings< no role > , not being of sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted as aforesaid,
did then and there take drink and swallow down; by Means whereof she the
said Elizabeth Jennings< 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,
from the said Seventh day of July in the Year aforesaid, until the Eighth day
of the same Month, in the same Year, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County
aforesaid, did languish and languishing did live, on which said Eighth day of July
in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty and County aforesaid, she the
said Elizabeth Jennings< no role > of the Poison aforesaid, and of the Sickness and Distemper
occasioned thereby, did die. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do saythat the said Elizabeth Jennings< no role > , 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 James Loton< 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 > Coroner .
James Loton< no role > Foreman